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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Courtier \Court"ier\ (k[=o]rt"y[~e]r), noun [From {Court}.]
1. One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. --Bacon.
This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. --Macaulay.
2. One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III. --Suckling.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
courtier
noun: an attendant at the court of a sovereign
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "courtier": adherent, adulator, appendage, apple-polisher, ass-licker, attendant, backscratcher, backslapper, blarneyer, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, buff, cajoler, cavaliere servente, clawback, creature, cringer, dangler, dependent, disciple, dupe, fan, fawner, flatterer, flunky, follower, following, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, henchman, homme de cour, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, parasite, partisan, peon, public, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, satellite, sectary, serf, shadow, slave, spaniel, stooge, successor, suck, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, trainbearer, truckler, tufthunter, votary, ward heeler, wheedler, yes-man
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