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Courtesan
Courtesan: a woman combining sexual commerce with artistic and elite companionship for wealthy patrons, distinct from ordinary prostitutes. Key figures include the Greek hetaira, the Italian cortigiana onesta, the Ming Chinese courtesan, and Edo Japan's oiran of Yoshiwara.
Courtesy name (字)
Courtesy name (字, zi; Japanese azana; Korean ja; Vietnamese tên chữ): an East Asian adult name distinct from the ming, bestowed at the capping rite, semantically paired with the given name, and used in polite address.
Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom
Courtesy titles in the UK are junior titles, such as an heir's use of a father's subsidiary peerage or the style The Honourable, held by custom rather than law by children of peers.
Courtier
A courtier is a person who attends the court of a monarch or ruler as a companion, adviser, or household member, central to politics and patronage in early modern Europe.
Courtney McClain
Courtney McClain is an American politician and Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in South Carolina's 4th District, facing Republican incumbent William Timmons in 2026.
Courtney Neron Misslin
Courtney Neron Misslin is an American Democratic politician serving Oregon State Senate District 13, appointed in 2025 after Senator Aaron Woods died; she previously served six years in the Oregon House.
Courtney Reum
Courtney Reum is an American entrepreneur and venture investor who co-founded the Los Angeles venture firm M13 in 2016 with his brother Carter Reum after selling their spirits company, VEEV Spirits.
Courts of England and Wales
Courts of England and Wales: the unified court system of the single England and Wales legal jurisdiction, spanning magistrates' courts, Crown Court, County Court, High Court, Court of Appeal, and the UK Supreme Court, distinct from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Courts of Northern Ireland
The courts of Northern Ireland are the separate court system for one of the UK's three legal jurisdictions, headed by the Lady Chief Justice and based in Belfast.
Courts of South Africa
Courts of South Africa: the judiciary under Chapter 8 of the 1996 Constitution, comprising the Constitutional Court (highest court), Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, 13 High Court divisions, Magistrates' and specialist courts.
Courtship
Courtship is the social interaction through which people or animals develop a romantic bond in preparation for mating or marriage, spanning animal sexual displays, family-arranged betrothals, twentieth-century dating, and modern dating apps.
Courtship in the Philippines
Courtship in the Philippines (ligaw or panliligaw) is the traditional Filipino process in which a man openly courts a woman, serves her family, and proves sincerity until she accepts. Distinguishing practices: harana serenading, pamamanhikan family visit, and slow family-mediated acceptance, now shifting to app-based dating.
Cousin
Cousin: a collateral relative descending from a parent's sibling. English uses one unsexed term (Eskimo/lineal system); Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha, and Sudanese systems distinguish cousin types differently; cousin marriage rules and laws vary.
Cousin marriage
Cousin marriage, or consanguineous marriage, is marriage between cousins, typically first cousins. Legal in most of the world, banned in many US states; raises autosomal recessive disorder risk roughly twofold.
Cousin marriage in the Middle East
Cousin (consanguineous) marriage in the Middle East: unions between second cousins or closer (F ≥ 0.0156), reaching 20–70% of marriages in Arab countries, driven by property retention, education, and rural residence.
Cousin marriage law in the United States
US state statutes restricting or banning first-cousin marriage, with the federal government silent: 22 permissive states, 6 conditional, and 22 bans since Kansas's first in 1858.
Coutts
Coutts, also known as Coutts & Co, is a British private bank and wealth manager founded in 1692, owned by NatWest Group and based at 440 Strand in London.
Covenant
Covenant: a formal promise in a contract or deed; in property law it binds land use, running with land in equity via Tulk v Moxhay (1848), enforced by injunction, dischargeable under Law of Property Act 1925 s84.
Covenant (treaty)
A covenant, in international law, is a treaty bearing the word "covenant" in its title, a solemn-sounding designation that carries no distinct legal regime.
Covenant (בְּרִית) (biblical)
In the Bible, a covenant (Hebrew berit) is a solemn agreement between God and people sealed with an oath, such as those with Noah and Abraham.
Covenant Chain
The Covenant Chain was a series of councils and treaties between the Iroquois Confederacy and British colonial governments, named at Albany in 1677 and led by New York.
Covenant College
Covenant College, founded 1955 in Pasadena and located on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, since 1964, is a Reformed Christian liberal arts college of the Presbyterian Church in America with 1,074 undergraduates in fall 2026.
Covenant marriage
Covenant marriage is a legally distinct U.S. marriage form in Louisiana, Arizona, and Arkansas requiring premarital counseling and restricting divorce to fault-based grounds; take-up is under 5%.
Covenant of Jiantu
The Covenant of Jiantu (践土之盟) was a covenant assembly held by Duke Wen of Jin in the Spring and Autumn period, recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian.
Covenant of the Cessation of Hostilities (Mibing)
The Covenant of the Cessation of Hostilities (弭兵之盟) was a 546 BC peace agreement in which Jin and Chu shared hegemony over the smaller Chinese states.
Covenant of the League of Nations
The Covenant of the League of Nations, adopted 28 April 1919 and in force 10 January 1920 as Part I of the Treaty of Versailles, was the League's 26-article founding treaty covering membership, Assembly and Council, Article 10 guarantees, Article 16 sanctions, and mandates.
Covenant of the Three Chapters of Law
The Covenant of the Three Chapters of Law (约法三章) was a set of three penal rules proclaimed by Liu Bang in the Qin heartland around 207 BC.
Covenant of Zhaoling
The Covenant of Zhaoling (召陵之盟) was a 656 BC peace agreement between Duke Huan of Qi's coalition and Chu, ending an armed standoff and halting Chu's advance northward.
Covenant theology
Covenant theology, also called Federal theology or Covenantalism, is a Reformed Protestant framework organizing Scripture around a covenant of works with Adam and a covenant of grace in Christ.
Covenanted Civil Service
The Covenanted Civil Service (कोवेनेंटेड सिविल सर्विस) was the East India Company's exclusive higher civil service in India, filling senior administrative and judicial posts under Cornwallis's reorganization.