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1 courtly
adjective (having fine manners.) αριστοκρατικός -
2 Courtly
adj.P. and V. σεμνός.Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Courtly
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3 court
[ko:t] 1. noun1) (a place where legal cases are heard: a magistrates' court; the High Court.) δικαστήριο (τόπος)2) (the judges and officials of a legal court: The accused is to appear before the court on Friday.) δικαστήριο3) (a marked-out space for certain games: a tennis-court; a squash court.) γήπεδο4) (the officials, councillors etc of a king or queen: the court of King James.) βασιλική αυλή, οι αυλικοί5) (the palace of a king or queen: Hampton Court.) ανάκτορο6) (an open space surrounded by houses or by the parts of one house.) αυλή2. verb1) (to try to win the love of; to woo.) φλερτάρω2) (to try to gain (admiration etc).) επιζητώ3) (to seem to be deliberately risking (disaster etc).) προκαλώ•- courtier- courtly
- courtliness
- courtship
- courthouse
- court-martial
- courtyard
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courtly — [kôrt′lē] adj. courtlier, courtliest [ME] 1. suitable for a king s court; dignified, polite, elegant, etc. [courtly manners] 2. flattering, esp. in an obsequious way adv. courtlier, courtliest in a courtly manner courtliness n … English World dictionary
Courtly — Court ly ( l?), a. [From {Court}.] 1. Relating or belonging to a court. [1913 Webster] 2. Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering. [1913 Webster] In courtly company or at my beads. Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Disposed to favor the great; favoring the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Courtly — Court ly, adv. In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly. [1913 Webster] They can produce nothing so courtly writ. Dryden [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
courtly — mid 15c., having manners befitting a court, from COURT (Cf. court) + LY (Cf. ly) (1). Meaning pertaining to the court is from late 15c. Courtly love highly conventionalized medieval chivalric love (amour courtois) is attested from 1896 … Etymology dictionary
courtly — index civil (polite) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
courtly politeness — index comity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
courtly — courteous, gallant, chivalrous, polite, *civil Analogous words: ceremonious, formal, conventional, *ceremonial: elegant, dignified, graceful (see corresponding nouns at ELEGANCE): finished, *consummate Antonyms: churlish Contrasted words:… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
courtly — [adj] refined manner adulatory, affable, aristocratic, august, ceremonious, chivalrous, civil, civilized, complimentary, conventional, cultured, decorous, dignified, elegant, flattering, formal, gallant, gracious, high bred, imposing, lofty,… … New thesaurus
courtly — ► ADJECTIVE (courtlier, courtliest) ▪ very dignified and polite. DERIVATIVES courtliness noun … English terms dictionary
Courtly love — God Speed! by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1900: a late Victorian view of a lady giving a favor to a knight about to do battle Courtly love was a medieval European conception of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration.[1] Generally,… … Wikipedia
courtly love — The term courtly love, generally used to describe a group of literary conventions common in western Europe in the later medieval period, was in fact never used in the Middle Ages. It was coined by the scholar Gaston Paris in 1883 to denote an… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
