courtly

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• Who was the most erotic poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, when the quatrain reached its courtly zenith?

• Blumenthal, a courtly gentleman of 68 in a perfectly crisp blue shirt, gets laughs by trotting out his rudimentary Spanish.

• The driver, Amadou Diallo, was a courtly African immigrant who made it a point to wear a tie as he worked.

• Merivel By Rose Tremain In the sequel to Restoration, Robert Merivel is back, now in middle age, with another courtly farce.

• From a long-awaited sequel to a courtly farce, to a memoir of a childhood spent in the ruins of American aristocracy.

• He was greatly admired for his fine physique and courtly bearing, and yet but few sought his acquaintance.

• Reining in his horse, he dismounted, and making what he thought a most courtly bow, he bade her good evening.

• He spoke her own tongue fluently, and never in Constantinople had she met a gentleman more at his ease in courtly company.

• But, first, shall I not buy you a book—some exquisite book full of strange perfumes and passionate courtly gestures?

• Until quite recently a courtly, aristocratic art had shed its light upon the whole of Europe.