Definition of COURTIER

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At the court of Louis XIV, courtiers wore embroidered pink frock coats with their red heels. — Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, "Fall’s 50 Shades . . . of Pink," 27 Mar. 2019 Under the British monarchy, courtiers paid kings for the privilege to fine. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "Fines and Punishment," 29 Nov. 2018 The Replica of Sarah Ferguson's Wedding Dress In Fergie's case, up-and-coming London courtier Lindka Cierach created both gowns in complete secrecy in advance of her July 23, 1986, nuptials to Prince Andrew. — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, "The Fascinating Story Behind Duplicate Royal Wedding Dresses," 20 Sep. 2018 Only elite women adopted the unveiled and mixed-gender socializing that the kings, queens, and courtiers were trying to popularize. — Rafia Zakaria, The New Republic, "Driving Toward Change," 23 June 2018 In Europe, the first modern political memoir was written by the Duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), a frustrated courtier at Versailles who took revenge on Louis XIV with his pen. — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, "The Tradition of Telling All," 30 Nov. 2018 His story of dreamy lovers split apart by scheming courtiers is also a protest against rulers, like the unseen duke, whose riches are wrung from the blood of their people. — Laura Collins-hughes, New York Times, "Review: Pulled Apart by ‘Love and Intrigue’," 8 June 2018 And Washington is revealed once again as our modern Versailles, a place of courtiers and lickspittles who’d use the Ministry of Justice to serve their ambitions. — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, "Obama’s silky lie and FBI bias in the Clinton investigation," 15 June 2018 Even Ludwig’s enemies—the courtiers for whom Wagner’s genius was a pernicious myth; the doctors and diplomats who conspired to declare Ludwig mad—are quite believably depicted. — Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, "A Momentous Wagnerian Film," 15 June 2018

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