Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
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No solace could her paramour entreat / Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance.
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1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
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I went to make court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle at their house in Clerkenwell.
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1667 April 28 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 18 April 1667]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC: