courtier
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A beneficiary might have to bow and scrape like a courtier, or accept treatment as a glorified servant.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
He has survived multiple damaging scandals and found his way back to power every time, like a wily Renaissance courtier or an unkillable horror-movie villain, and may well survive this one.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025
The grandchildren's father, Prince Joachim, the Queen's youngest son, reportedly only heard the news from a courtier.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2023
The character plays the courtier, but the compliments he dispenses are transparently phony.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
He ate some bread, and said, “My girls, they do like to dance. Little one, Shirley, she going to dance like a courtier when she’s grown. The big one, she wants the graces.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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The Renaissance and Early Modern European History - Introductory
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