Example sentences for: courtly

How can you use “courtly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The letter is wonderfully gracious--and yet, the graciousness owes everything to Washington's feelings about republican revolution, and nothing at all to what could be learned from a 16 th -century Jesuit manual of courtly behavior.

  • It is obvious that we have admitted many, some of which we wanted, and therefore our language is the richer for them, as it would be by importation of bullion: other are rather ornamental than necessary; yet by their admission, the language is become more courtly, and our thoughts are better dressed.

  • And indeed, my husband and I spurned the courtly generalist for an up-to-date internist, highly recommended by a more senior associate at the top Washington law firm my husband had joined.

  • Hungarian folk-dancing is well worth watching, and takes you through the whole gamut of courtly wedding dances to high-energy, boot-slapping “Lad’s Dances” from the 18th century.

  • 233)--"Courtly":


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