Synonym: civil, courteous, elegant, gracious, obliging, polite, respectful. Similar words: curtly, hurtle, turtle, hurtling, sea turtle, partly, portly, expertly. Meaning: ['kɔːtlɪ] adj. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court.
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(1) The waiter made a courtly bow.
(2) The play subtly mocks the conventions of courtly love.
(3) Frank was attentive to me, even courtly.
(4) He was courtly or proper, and very precise in his words and thinking.
(5) In the courtly love tradition, the woman was put on a pedestal - objectified.
(6) He seemed a courtly gentleman with the inbred manners of a diplomat.
(7) A more elegant and courtly preparation was quail in aspic, often served with foie gras or truMes.
(8) Another important instance of courtly behaviour is when the hero has to lead the heroine into the dance.
(9) The courtly love bit suited his fears: if you don't ask, you don't know.
(10) She is modest and courtly, serving jasmine tea to visitors.
(11) The Senate has a long and courtly tradition of etiquette and member privilege.
(12) Or is it courtly love?
(13) Is the courtly love Black or white?
(14) Brian was courtly and reserved.
(15) He was urbane(Sentence dictionary), courtly and honorable.
(16) Young princes speak in courtly phrases.
(17) This Courtly Poetry came out of the idea of chivalry and courtly love that you might associate with knights in shining armor.
(18) We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
(19) Monseigneur received him in a courtly manner, but they did not shake hands.
(20) Willi made his way over to Madge Grimsilk, coughed, hesitated, then bowed in a very old-fashioned and courtly way.
(21) The court of Champagne had meanwhile become a place of development for the ideal of courtly love and the medieval romantic poem.
(22) The message is clear and concise and displays no verbosity that one would expect to find in more courtly love scenes.
(23) The cuckolding of heiresses and the wives of great lords was considered the highest form of courtly love.
(24) The relevant 1674 images show two different occasions, both courtly.
(25) A lofty and spacious carriage, the G slips from rough country into a more courtly role as if to the manner born.
(26) It is such an elegant tongue, the language of flowers: supple, courtly and precise.
(27) Every now and then a dad would swagger in and talk to her with reverence but also with a certain courtly gaiety.
(28) And Play Media from Mozart's 36th symphony. The minuet is a courtly, aristocratic dance, and both composers are faithful to its nature.
(29) The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
(30) The most contemptible of the personages in the play is the courtly fop Osric.
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