courtier

Converse of object

• become: His father made his fortune as an upholsterer and then became a courtier to King Louis XIV.
• favor: The Dissolution was also highly profitable for favored courtiers who were able to obtain property on generous terms.
• fawn: It was so ludicrous it made you think of Mel Brooks or Monty Python playing a scene of monstrous king and fawning courtiers.
• assemble: The aim was to blow up the king, James I, and assembled courtiers and lords, at the state opening of parliament.
• trust: In Polonius we see an accomplished spy and a trusted courtier whose service to both Kings has been regarded as valuable.
• leave: Charles II and his courtiers left in July for Hampton Court and then Oxford.

Adjective modifier

• Elizabethan: The dashing escapades of courageous men who brought wealth to Queen Elizabeth were also included in the ranks of Elizabethan courtiers.
• favorite: Question 2: How did you become one of the Queen's favorite courtiers?
• powerful: The Affair Pembroke was a popular and powerful courtier, a poet and a well-known patron of literature.
• former: Next for the chop were former courtiers Patrick Sikorski and Brian Heron and their Fourth International Supporters Caucus.
• French: I have heard you say that the French courtiers Wear their hats on ' fore that king.
• English: Orders the English courtiers to have theirs cut short too, to show sympathy, but grows his own long again quite soon.

Modifies a noun

..: For in order that virtue be unharmed, one must turn aside from the life of the courtier...

Possessives

word: The courtier's words influence the powerful, and the daimyo make decisions that influence thousands of lives.

Possessives

king: Closely followed by the new king's courtiers, Ophelia must leave her home forever, carrying a dangerous, yet precious secret.

Preposition: in

reign: His grandfather, Sir Richard Southwell, had been a wealthy man and a prominent courtier in the reign of Henry VIII.