settings
Blackadder vocabulary
219 vocabulary words, including people, places, music, artists, etc.
help & settings
[x]
-
courtier
-
synonyms: sychophant, toady, pickthank ???
► definition
Definition:1. an advisor to royalty;2. one who flatters in order to gain favor or advantage
► uses
Uses:
The ladies and courtiers were all most magnificently clad; so that the spot they stood upon seemed to resemble a petticoat spread upon the ground, embroidered with figures of gold and silver.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
---
Rum: Aaah, courtiers to the Queen, you're nothing but lapdogs to a slip of a girl.
Blackadder: Better a "lapdog to a slip of a girl", than a... git.
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Potato
---
First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did.
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
---
She felt, as courtiers do when the Tsar enters, the sensation of fear and respect
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
help with search