Relating or belonging to a court.
Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering. In courtly company or at my beads. Shak.
Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious. Macualay.
In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly. They can produce nothing so courtly writ. Dryden
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