单词 | courtier |
释义 | courtier (once / 616 pages) n WORD FAMILY courtier: courtiers USAGE EXAMPLESThat would get the attention of Vladimir Putin’s political and financial courtiers. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) Courtier did not request release from jail pending the August 2017 trial. Seattle Times(Dec 06, 2016) This week, Trump Tower was a hive of scurrying courtiers, from a prime minister, media mogul and nonagenarian diplomat to senators, congressmen and businessmen. The Guardian(Nov 19, 2016) n an attendant at the court of a sovereign Exp|Hyper Damocles the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC) Comtesse Du Barrycourtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793) Sir Walter RaleighEnglish courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618) Sir John SucklingEnglish poet and courtier (1609-1642) attendant, attender, tender someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another |
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