a. [f. COURT sb.1 + -LESS; in sense 2 app. f. after court-ly.]

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  1.  Without a court.

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1590.  J. Melvill, Diary (1842), 287. If it salbe … sic courteours to sett out our court, war it nocht better to be courtles?

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  † 2.  Wanting in courtliness, uncourtly. Obs.

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1609.  B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., II. iii. Alasse, lady, these answers by silent curt’sies, from you, are too courtlesse, and simple. I haue euer had my breeding in court.

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