courtly
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Courtly love, behaving well, even while carrying a sword.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2019
About noon, Kenneth Drake and their college-age son went to a coin show at the UAW Hall in Fostoria and returned home to Courtly Drive, a residential street just off U.S.
From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2017
“They never really got any leads,” said Barb Reineck, who still lives on Courtly Drive and remembers the hunt.
From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2017
Courtly, incisive and acerbic in equal measure, Mr. Sarris came of critical age in the 1960s as the first great wave of foreign films washed ashore in the United States.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2012
Courtly writers blot them out of history as Louis XIV. desired to blot them out of France.
From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel
Vocabulary lists containing courtly
Tolkien Reading Day, List 11
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