courtois

Thanks for your offer, kind Knight, et courtois Chevalier.

Five-typo feast of fail 2009

Eh bien, you must rest quietly a moment, and be courtois ... what you call proper, correct ... until you have explained what I wish to know.

Watershed 2010

Eh bien, you must rest quietly a moment, and be courtois ... what you call proper, correct ... until you have explained what I wish to know.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

"If I do anything that seems strange to you, Sophia" -- he used her name for the first time, and it thrilled him -- "know that my actions are ruled by what we call l'amour courtois, which means that we know how to value women, whose value is beyond price."

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

"The head of every young French nobleman is full of two things, honor and l'amour courtois."

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

But he did not want to offend Sophia, and perhaps l'amour courtois would permit a small lapse in one bound to be truthful to his lady.

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

The ultimate act of l'amour courtois, this had been quite beyond his power of self-restraint with the women who played at courtly love with him in Paris.

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

In all the lore of l'amour courtois the woman made the man wait -- sometimes for years, sometimes for his entire life -- and the man was happy to wait, and that was all there was to it.

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

The author gives a romantic description of the meeting with Cleopatra, with an interpolated dissertation on _amour courtois_ as understood by the

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Subtle, learned, and somewhat artificial, Provençal poetry had for its only theme love -- an idealized and quintessential love -- l'amour courtois.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913