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
Its practical function: No one, neither courtier nor plebeian, could stand close to the queen, conspicuous in her splendid isolation.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024
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
A: Yes, I talked to a very senior courtier who said, “Oh, God, it was awful.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022
The portraits of other courtier children circle hers.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
