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What does courtly mean?

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Adjective
  1. Suitable for a royal court; refined, dignified.
  2. Obsequious, flattering.
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The 59-year-old, with the courtly manner of the southern black gentry, shrinks from criticizing others.
She had always been a proper lady, who believed in classic things like courtly love and un-divorceable marriage.
Domingo is highly courtly and uxorious towards her, despite the abounding stories of affairs.
Posner has resigned himself to loving Dinah in the self-abasing tradition of courtly love, the object forever unattainable.
The silver-haired Virginian with courtly manners is a throwback to a forgotten era of congressional comity.
Galician lyric and courtly poetry flourished until the middle of the fourteenth century.

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