What is "courtiers"

Usage examples of "courtiers".

At the nightlong feasting, warriors and courtiers alike drank freely of the abundant wine.

In these troubled times, however, horse-racing was no longer confined to the course at Kamo in May, but took place in shrine compounds, on the estates of the courtiers and noblemen who entertained the Emperor or the ex-Emperor and their ladies, on the broad stretch of Second Avenue, or were even improvised at imperial picnics.

Cloister Palace, where many of the courtiers were ill-disposed toward Tadamori.

Though a mere warrior, he was permitted near the imperial dais, the only warrior singled out for such honor, and the jealous courtiers resented him.

The younger courtiers affected the fashion of lightly powdered faces, painted eyebrows, and rouged cheeks and exhaled the scent of the rare perfumes they carried in their sleeves.

In one of the pavilions courtiers in helmets decked with wistaria made a wide splash of purple, scenting the air with the fragrance of flowers.

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

Kiyomori thought of the courtiers who casually dropped love-letters in the halls of the Palace where ladies-in-waiting passed, and waited for night to bring the touch of sinuous tresses and hot lips.

Toba laughed wryly as he sought to pacify the courtiers, who ceased to press their charges against Tadamori, though not for long.

Palace courtiers, and the role that he had played had affected him and his daughters adversely.

There, in sight of the suspicious courtiers, he drew out his blade to test its edge against his topknot.

The steel, glinting like ice in the light of the candles, filled the watchful courtiers with misgivings.

But the ex-Emperor had known for some time of the affair, and, unknown to the courtiers, encouraged and sanctioned the marriage by which Tadamori already had two sons.

Even the courtiers had nothing ill to say of Kiyomori, while the rival monasteries of related sects held up Mount Hiei for ridicule.

Fujiwara courtiers, who feared to send him any distance from the capital, and induced Tameyoshi to stay in Kyoto, where they could keep him under their eye.