courtly

Next to pictures showing her and Bardella walking, holding hands, and clambering over rocks, Paris-Match waxes lyrical about a couple "reinventing courtly love – 21st Century-style".

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

That Rococo quartet, completed in 1755, is a survey in the soft opulence of the style, filled with idealized nature, rich fabrics and scenes of courtly romance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“Irresistible” might be set in the period we know as the Victorian era, and there are royals and attendant paraphernalia, but lovers of polite courtly romances might want to steer clear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

The courtly gentleman guided women around the floor to big band standards with all the aplomb of teenage boys waltzing at a cotillion dance they’ve been forced to attend by their parents.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025

His courtly manner was no different than it had ever been.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

In some ways, Gucci Mane is a holdover from this older, meaner era, which is one reason that a younger, courtlier peer like Drake is so eager to get his blessing.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

Mr. Kuhn favors a courtlier style, crisp and precise.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2016

His competitive instincts could overwhelm his gentler, courtlier ones.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2016

In comportment and style, Byrd often seemed a Senate throwback to a courtlier 19th century.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2010

So here, then, was a knave who held, somehow, the keys to a courtlier and nobler world.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch

But Mr. Lovano gave it his courtliest treatment, caressing the wistful melody with a whispery, feathery grace.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013

He is the most reticent of directors -- where the book ogles, the film discreetly observes -- and, here, the courtliest of stars.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gottfried von Cramm, who put Budge out in the semi-finals that year, greeted the Queen with the courtliest bow of the dav.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lord Stafford was the courtliest of gentlemen and the most liberal of landlords.

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles

Therein, beyond doubt, one found the most cultured coteries, the courtliest polish and the simplest elegance that the drawing-rooms of this continent could boast.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.