courtiers
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Working through more than 6,500 pages in Kolkata's National Library, he followed princes, generals, courtiers, royal women, imperial eunuchs and many others through tens of thousands of entries.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Christine Cover Ferro‘s costumes situate the jockeying courtiers in a vintage 20th century underworld. Projection designer Nick Santiago fleshes out Angela Balogh Calin‘s stripped down scenic design, which combines Elizabethan simplicity with modern rough edges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
It was the stick he waved around the world to achieve his foreign policy aims, to show favor and disfavor, to offer or withhold exemptions to courtiers.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026
So in the end, courtiers used an obscure workaround.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
One man, dressed in black, kneeled closer to the king, separate from the rest of the courtiers.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
