COURTIER, noun [from court.] 1. A man who attends or frequents the courts of princes. 2. One who courts or solicits the favor of another; one who flatters to please; one who possesses the art of gaining favor by address and complaisance. There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III.
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