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▪ I. courtier1|ˈkɔətɪə(r)|
Forms: 3–4 courteour(e, 4 kourteour, 5 courtyour, -teyer, teer, coortyowre, cowrtyoure, corteore, 5–6 courtyer, 6 -tyar, -ter, -ture, cortier, 6– courtier.
[app. repr. an AF. *corte(i)our = OF. *cortoyeur, f. cortoyer to be at or frequent the court: see court v.]
1. One who frequents the court of a sovereign; an attendant at court.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 114/254 A-ȝen þe proute courteoures. c1350Will. Palerne 342 My fader..knew of kourt þe þewes, for kourteour was he long. c1440Gesta Rom. ii. lii. 372 (Add. MS.) Prelates of causes temporall, courteers, Iurrours, and wily men. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 44 Reynard the foxe is now asquyer and a courtyer. 1538Starkey England ii. i. 159 To many courtyarys and idul servantys. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. iii 66 Thou wouldst make an absolute Courtier. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 535 A delicate Courtier, curious in her habites..did all things fit for a Court, as well as any braue Lady could doe. 1720Gay Poems (1745) II. 83 False is the cringing Courtier's plighted word. 1847L. Hunt Jar Honey ix. (1848) 122 Chaucer was a courtier, and a companion of princes.
b. transf.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. i. 97 That youth's a rare Courtier. 1838Lytton Alice 13 We have now a new vicar, and I must turn courtier in my old age.
c. Eng. Hist.
1872Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) II. x. 269 The new parliament consisted of courtiers, as the Cromwell party were always denominated.
†d. A court-card. Obs. rare.
1658Osborn Adv. Son (1673) 179 A Courtier kept out, and a mean trump foisted in, where the best is required.
†2. One who courts; a wooer. Obs.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vi. 17 Courtiers of beautious freedome. a1641Suckling (J.), There was not..a greater courtier of the people than Richard the IIId. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ix. (1675) 333 Courtiers of Applause. 1766T. Amory Buncle (1770) III. 183 The husband generally proves a very different man from the courtier.
3. Comb., as courtier-company; courtier-like adj. and adv.
1598Florio, Cortegianesco, courtier-like. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 268 Courtier-like dainty Courtship. 1735Collect. Epigrams cclvii. (Jod.), He courtier-like cry'd, prythee, get thee gone. 1858Gladstone Homer III. 503 A spirit of courtierlike adulation. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 42 The courtier-company, to whom he passed The paper.
▪ II. † ˈcourtier2 Obs.
Also courteer.
[f. court n.2]
The driver of the cart called a ‘court’.
1630Ms. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For breade and beere for the courtiers that brought in our bricke and tyles iijd. 1638Ibid. For the courteer to drinke ijd. |