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COURTLY LOVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does courtly love mean?
• COURTLY LOVE (noun)
The noun COURTLY LOVE has 1 sense:
1. (Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers
Familiarity information: COURTLY LOVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("courtly love" is a kind of...):
code of behavior; code of conduct (a set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group)
Domain category:
Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)
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