courtier
Example Sentences
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He has survived multiple damaging scandals and found his way back to power every time, like a wily Renaissance courtier or an unkillable horror-movie villain, and may well survive this one.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025
The walking style of a courtier, for instance, “will be very different than a merchant’s wife,” Kanesaka says.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2023
Some of this may be down to Mr Case's "inexperience" as a senior civil servant, he suggested, and his apparent desire to act as "courtier" to ministers, rather than an impartial adviser.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2023
Guilt over his father’s death is part of what drives him to make himself indispensable to Sunny, a courtier currying a prince’s favor.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2023
Gabrielle lifts a smelling box to her nose when a courtier woman comes to say hello to Princess Sophia.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
