a. [f. COURT sb.1 + -LESS; in sense 2 app. f. after court-ly.]
1. Without a court.
1590. J. Melvill, Diary (1842), 287. If it salbe … sic courteours to sett out our court, war it nocht better to be courtles?
† 2. Wanting in courtliness, uncourtly. Obs.
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.
