courtiers

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Suetonius recorded that Julius Caesar was “somewhat overnice in the care of his person,” and Elizabethan courtiers sported particolored slashed sleeves, but the dandy is a modern, urban phenomenon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Whether it is simply fewer courtiers, a bit less ceremony, no more people calling him sir, or bowing.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

The moment I stood before that glittering crowd of sumptuously dressed courtiers, I lapsed into a sort of dream.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood