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Example sentences for: courtier

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Yet some centuries before there was a boy named Anne : the full-bearded face of Anne de Montmorency 1493-1567, soldier, courtier, Constable of France, gazes from his portrait with supreme aristocratic confidence.
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.
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.
The first limit on his influence was that he was not quite as much of a Reagan courtier as he was made out to be.
Must you record my every word? he gasped when he spotted a courtier making notes.