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Quotation dates: 1500-1610
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Courteour, -iour, n. Also: courtyour, -ieour, cortiour. Also (after Curt n.): curteour. [ME. courteour (a 1300), courtyour, prob. from AF.] A courtier.(a) c1552 Lynd. Mon. 329.
I haif … bene, to this hour, Sen I could ryde, one courtiour 1558-66 Knox II. 424.
No small travell wes maid, to haif drawin sum mynisteris to the factioun of the courtiouris c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxiv. 11 (B).
Than swoir ane courtyour mekle of pryd a1578 Pitsc. I. 60/13.
Be fallis sugestioun of flaterand courtieouris thai war wairdit againe a1578 Ib. 315/19.
The dialog … callit ‘The clairk and the courtiour’ 1600-1610 Melville 543.
The cortiouris compleaned heavilie that they could gett no accesse [to the King](b) 1558-66 Knox II. 362.
Whairat the courteouris began to storme a1578 Pitsc. I. 8/17.
Be ane new courteour that rullit so the rudder a1578 Ib. 40/24.
Be informatioun of sum avarisious courteouris 1596 Dalr. I. 134/22. 1596 Ib. 161/20.
Ferleg … was steired vpe throuch titling of sum of the courteouris in his eiris(c) a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS clxxv. 42.
Ȝe that with curteouris hes bein Acquentit lang a1578 Pitsc. I. 87/22.
Schir William Creichtoune with the rest of the curteouris that was in credit with the king c 1590 Cath. Tr. 252/6.
Whilk … Maister Craig … durst not deny for offending of the curteoures
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