Courtiers
[kɔ:ti:əz]
Examples
- The ruler was engaged in conversation with his son, Sab Than, and several courtiers of his household, and did not perceive my entrance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- If that is true of Plato with his ample vision how much truer is it of the theories of the littler men--politicians, courtiers and propagandists who make up the academy of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Many of the leading princes and courtiers of the queen's party fled abroad. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The mass of Cook's Courtiers are in their usual state of mind, no better and no worse; but Mr. Snagsby is changed, and his little woman knows it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Jeanne