Definition of Courtlier

1. Adjective. (comparative of courtly) ¹

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Definition of Courtlier

1. courtly [adj] - See also: courtly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Courtlier

courtezan
courtezans
courthouse
courthouses
courtier
courtierlike
courtierly
courtiers
courtiery
courting
courtisanerie
courtisaneries
courtless
courtlet
courtlets
courtlier (current term)
courtliest
courtlike
courtliness
courtlinesses
courtling
courtlings
courtly
courtly love
courtroom
courtrooms
courts
courts-baron
courts-leet
courts-martial

Literary usage of Courtlier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"... and the verdict of the curator ran that it might have outlived the courtlier metals, but that its greediness of the humbler sort of coin had killed it ! ..."

2. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"Chivalry—the institution and the whole knightly character—began in the rough and veritable, and progressed to courtlier idealizations. ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"I think it might be—were it better writ And courtlier phrased, with Latin spice cast in, And a more tunable descant. MARY STUART : Ay; how sweet Sang all ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Never was courtlier Billingsgate uttered, or which came more directly home to the business and bosoms of women. The subject is that old story of Precedence, ..."

5. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"Never was courtlier Billingsgate uttered, or which came more directly home to the business and bosoms of women. The subject is that old story of Precedence, ..."

6. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1841)
"The laureate, who no courtlier rhymes than “dust to dust” can find—- The Kings and Queens who having ta'en that vow and worn that crown, Descended unto ..."

7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"See now, a courtlier form is gliding past. More soft, more truly Dimity than the last; He apes nut, he, the warrior's lordly ..."

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