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Courtier


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.