courtier
Noun
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An attendant at the court of a sovereign (synset 109991369)
is a type of: attendant, attender, tender - someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of anotherspecific instances:
- damocles - the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)
- comtesse du barry, du barry, marie jeanne becu - courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
- ralegh, raleigh, sir walter ralegh, sir walter raleigh, walter ralegh, walter raleigh - English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)
- sir john suckling, suckling - English poet and courtier (1609-1642)
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