Hypertext Webster Gateway: "courtly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Courtly \Court"ly\ (-l?), a. [From {Court}.]
1. Relating or belonging to a court.
2. Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering.
In courtly company or at my beads. --Shak.
3. Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party
of the court; obsequious. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Courtly \Court"ly\, adv.
In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.
They can produce nothing so courtly writ. --Dryden
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
courtly
adj : refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a
royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: {elegant}, {formal},
{stately}]
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