courtly love

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   (Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers

   Broadercode of conduct

   Middle Ages

Questions about courtly love

What does courtly love mean?

courtly love means "(Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers".

Is courtly love a common word?

courtly love is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.