Meaning of courtful | Babel Free

Definitions

As much as a court would hold.

Examples

“Worldly little devil, I would stand⟳ about, musingly fitting my cold bare feet into cracked bricks and crevices of the damp cellar floor, – walking over my grandfather's body, so to speak⟳, into the courtful of houses, and selling them for meat and drink⟳, and clothes to wear⟳.”

“When there is more than one character in the scene, as is so frequently the case with Shakespeare (where there can be a whole courtful of people for you to deal⟳ with), then place⟳ the different characters in widely different locations on stage⟳, giving them each a single simple attitude toward you that you are either combatting or using as agreement.”

“It Includes poems by Elizabeth, who had to keep⟳ control⟳ of her courtful of poetically competing males.”

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