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Example sentences for: courtier

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It was Baldessare Castiglione (in The Book of the Courtier , finished 1516, published 1528) who first recommended black costume as a means of conveying personal distinction and a certain noble reticence.
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In the sixteenth century, an Elizabethan courtier, Sir John Harrington, invented a water-closet with a flushing system and wrote a book on the subject entitled A Metamorphosis of Ajax, published in 1596.
Possibly, he's confusing him with that other wily courtier, Rasputin, the man behind the czarist throne, who was poisoned, drowned, etc., but managed to keep coming back.
Must you record my every word? he gasped when he spotted a courtier making notes.