The word 'courtier' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a member of a royal court or someone who seeks favor from a monarch or influential person. Example: The courtier presented the king with a beautifully crafted sword, hoping to gain his favor and secure a higher position at court.
More experienced, more self-confident and trusted enough – at last – by Labour cabinet colleagues, he was licensed to speak his mind freely as a big political beast, not as a Blair-Brown courtier.
And when Pushkin's wife caught Nicholas's eye, the increasingly beleaguered poet was coerced into becoming a junior courtier so that she could attend all the right balls.The recklessness with which Pushkin fought duels and even gambled away some of his own manuscripts is no doubt directly attributable to the need to assert some kind of independence in such a repressive world.
Even the arch-monarchist Daily Mail wrote a story recently about the courtier employed to carry his favourite cushion around in the tone the paper ordinarily reserves for asylum-seekers.
But thereafter it should save the treasury around 0.7% of GDP a year, and it goes some way towards eroding Italy's huge debt (of 106% of GDP).Yet just to get this measure approved, Mr Berlusconi had to resort to manoeuvring that would have bewildered a Byzantine courtier, and a confidence vote that might have felled his government.
Mr Ozawa shot back that if the courtier didn't like it he should resign.In some ways, the episode reveals how much the rules of the game are changing under the DPJ.
The worst kind of courtier is the "minister-favourite", the man who offers the sovereign intimate advice while at the same time arrogating to himself a public role in governing the state.
In 1525, in an attempt to weaken his imperial adversary, the king made his first moves towards forming an alliance with the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman, a ruler who wanted to conquer Europe for Islam.The vast and romantic 16th-century chateau was built for the very rich Duc de Montmorency, a courtier who carried out many diplomatic missions to Constantinople.
They slog their way through the tedium of parliamentary work; he fastens himself to the rising tsar and becomes the leader's confidant and courtier.
What they hear is tales of which privileged courtier or business mogul has pocketed how much.Despite sharp polarisation between arch-religious conservative Saudis and more progressive types, there is general agreement on two points.
He remained, at heart, a courtier and a cynic.He gained his first success with a children's verse fable about the exploits of a very tall policeman, "Uncle Steeple" (Dyadya Styopa).
But when he at last decides whether to promote Mr Mandelson, the prime minister will be all too aware that his courtier is a man of many talents, of which one is held to be a talent for betrayal and that among those who feel in some way betrayed by him are the chancellor and the deputy prime minister.
