courtly
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Courtly love, behaving well, even while carrying a sword.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2019
Courtly puff sleeves bellowed exaggeratedly on a furry jacket.
From Washington Times • May 30, 2017
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
From Bawdy Street Dance to Courtly Refinement There are many ideas about how the chaconne — the intoxicating dance that bursts with improvisatory flair over a steady, repeating bass line — got its name.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2012
Archdeacon Hannah, in his Courtly Poets from Ralegh to Montrose, concludes, with some hesitation, that the whole was composed as a sequel, between 1603 and 1612, to a much earlier poem.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)
Vocabulary lists containing courtly
Tolkien Reading Day, List 11
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