NOM | person | cortesà, àulic | an attendant at the court of a sovereign |
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Sentit | An attendant at the court of a sovereign. | |
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Sinònim | àulic | |
Espècimens | Damocles | The Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC) |
Walter Raleigh | English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia | |
General | ajudant | someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another |
Anglès | courtier | |
Espanyol | áulico, cortesano, palaciego |
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