courtier

IPA: kˈɔrtiɝ

Examples of "courtier" in Sentences

A courtier is an attendant at a royal court or an inveterate flatterer.
He is good metal in the inside, though rough and unscoured without, and therefore hated of the courtier, that is quite contrary.
All my training and thoughts were centred here, not as what one calls a courtier at all, but as one of the household who feared the king and queen no more than
The Persian courtier is constantly on horseback, hunting with his sovereign in weather of all kinds, or accompanying him in journeys from one end of Persia to the other.
Now, the old woman sat no more at the door with her distaff -- the lank beggar no longer asked charity in courtier-like phrase; nor on holidays did the peasantry thread with slow grace the mazes of the dance.
It didn't matter that the courtier was her son; she had no intention of taking the game past the graceful and empty movements of the dance of words and gesture, and he knew it, and she knew he knew it, so everyone was happy.
The Republican criminal class of the current generation has not slithered, cheated, bribed and whored its way to power without the active support and contrivance of the establishment media, which Digby has rightly described as a courtier class.
But the disposition of a courtier is tame and submissive; and Capito seldom presumed to deviate from the sentiments, or at least from the words, of his predecessors; while the bold republican pursued his independent ideas without fear of paradox or innovations.