courtly
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The limpid four-movement ballet is both courtly and casual, with its intricately evolving choreographic patterns gently beguiling, as if seen in a crystalline hall of mirrors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
The courtly gentleman guided women around the floor to big band standards with all the aplomb of teenage boys waltzing at a cotillion dance they’ve been forced to attend by their parents.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025
The life-size portrait he produced is a whiz-bang spectacle of courtly pomp and dynastic circumstance.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024
The effect is both casual and courtly: Her women lounge on couches and read magazines.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2024
She had loved listening to the men on the benches too; to freeriders tough as leather, courtly knights and bold young squires, grizzled old men- at-arms.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing courtly
Tolkien Reading Day, List 11
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Red, White, and Whole
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Howl's Moving Castle
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