[f. COURT sb.1 + -LING.] A frequenter of the Court, a courtier (obs.); a creature of the Court; a young or petty courtier.

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1599.  B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., V. ii. Wks. (Rtldg.), 98/1. I must declare myself unto you no profest courtling.

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1648.  Earl Westmoreland, Otia Sacra (1879), 77. God by reproof sends … Proud Courtlings to th’ Riches of the fields.

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1808.  Edin. Rev., II. 295. Showered down upon this happy courtling … two pensions, two Irish titles, and a British peerage.

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1835.  Ure, Philos. Manuf., 205. The courtiers about his person, and all their dependent courtlings in the country.

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