Usually means: Romantic, chivalrous devotion to unattainable.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. courtly love: Merriam-Webster
  2. courtly love: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. courtly love: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. courtly love: Collins English Dictionary
  5. courtly love: Vocabulary.com
  6. courtly love: Wiktionary
  7. courtly love: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. courtly love: Dictionary.com
  9. Courtly Love, Courtly love: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. courtly love: Rhymezone
  11. courtly love: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  12. courtly love: FreeDictionary.org
  13. courtly love: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. courtly love: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. COURTLY LOVE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. courtly love: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (courtly love)

noun:  A mediaeval European conception of noble and chivalrous love, generally secret and between members of the nobility.

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