Courtier Definition

Courtier Sentence Examples

• Hooper speaks of himself at this period as being "a courtier and living too much of a court life in the palace of our king."

• At the inquiry he bought his acquittal from a courtier and his accusers were executed.

• But he was more useful to the courtier in his legal capacity, and Rochester dissuaded him from the ministry.

• The type is set before us by Castiglione in that book upon the courtier which went the round of Europe in the 16th century.

• He would make that foxy old courtier feel that the responsibility for all the calamities that would follow the abandonment of the city and the ruin of Russia (as Rostopchin regarded it) would fall upon his doting old head.