courtiers
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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
She ignored the passing courtiers and servants, focusing instead on the fading day.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
