Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
courtier or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Auberon, again in his courtierlike mode, emerges from the museum precisely as the Burslems step out of the car.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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Auberon, again in his courtierlike mode, emerges from the museum precisely as the Burslems step out of the car.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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Auberon, again in his courtierlike mode, emerges from the museum precisely as the Burslems step out of the car.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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Just then Boris, with his courtierlike adroitness, stepped up to
War and Peace 2003
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But, with the womanly and courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna
War and Peace 2003
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At an early age he entered the royal guards, and proved, during the war with Russia, that his courage in the field fully equalled his more courtierlike merits.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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A courtierlike fellow this, debonair as a Venus cavalier!
Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings 1922
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Conn had passed twenty-four years in Italy, had courtierlike manners and bearing.
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But, with the womanly and courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pavlovna wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak he had done of a man recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she said:
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869
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Just then Boris, with his courtierlike adroitness, stepped up to
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869
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