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courtly (adj.)
mid-15c., "having manners befitting a court," from
court
(n.) +
-ly
(1). Meaning "pertaining to the court" is from late 15c.
Courtly love
"highly conventionalized medieval chivalric love" (
amour courtois
) is attested from 1896.
