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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Suitable for a royal court; stately: courtly furniture and pictures.
  2. adj. Elegant; refined: courtly manners.
  3. adj. Flattering in an insincere way; obsequious.
  4. adv. In a courtly manner; elegantly or politely.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining or relating to a court or to courts.
  2. Elegant; polite; refined; courteous: as, “courtly accents fine,”
  3. Disposed to court the great; somewhat obsequious; flattering.
  4. In the manner of courts; elegantly; in a gracious or flattering manner.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Suitable for a royal court; refined, dignified.
  2. adj. Obsequious, flattering.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Relating or belonging to a court.
  2. adj. Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering.
  3. adj. Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious.
  4. adv. In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court

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