The Collaborative International Dictionary
Courtling
Courtling \Court"ling\ (-l?ng), n. [Court + -ling.]
A sycophantic courtier.
--B. Jonson.
Wiktionary
courtling
n. (context obsolete English) A sycophantic courtier.
Usage examples of "courtling".
He heard the soughing of a storm-driven forest, together with a clamouring of familiar voices that called him by name, that cursed or supplicated, mocked or exhorted, in myriad tones of warrior, councillor, slave, courtling, castrado or leman.
Being but little skilled in kingcraft, and wholly untried by the ordeals of dominion, he sought counsel of his courtlings but was ill advised by them.