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courtier Значение & определение

0 a companion of a queen, king, or other ruler in their official home, especially in the past:
- Many of the courtiers were strongly wedded to traditional ways of doing things.

Combining the conflicting expectations pertaining to the warrior knight, courtier, gentleman scholar, and local lord, the basis of aristocratic rule was varied and contested.
Patronized by courtiers and under the control of city magistrates, the theatre was also from its inception closely connected with government.
The foster brother bursts in and throws a net that captures all the courtiers.
In the mid-1750s, beyond the royal family's lodgings there remained 226 apartments free for courtiers.
On numerous occasions the king presented one of his courtiers with the money for a house or even a house itself.
Musical ability, then, was increasingly important to the successful courtier.
Spreading out from the central body of the palace, they pushed the courtiers and princes of the blood ever further away from the king's apartments.
They were not local notables originating out of the ranks of the resident population, but courtiers of the prince governing the region.