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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Courtesy

Civility, politeness. It was at the courts of princes and great feudatories that minstrels and pages practised the refinements of the age in which they lived. The word originally meant the manners of the court.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

Courtesy Titles

Court of the Gentiles

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