court of honour

British  

noun

1. a military court that is instituted to investigate matters involving personal honour

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Example Sentences

If Mador demanded the Court of Honour, he must have it.

From Literature

His son, who had been bred in the Inns of Court, and was resident in Hampshire, presuming, upon the strength of his pedigree, to take precedence of some of his neighbours, they instigated Lord Delawarr to prosecute him in the Court of Honour.

From Project Gutenberg

We found ourselves in a square yard, a kind of court of honour, with avenues of trees many centuries old, giants and monsters in stone, and canals fenced in with marble balustrades and arched by bridges.

From Project Gutenberg

I had to cross several courts before I arrived at the court of honour, which was square like the others, and had halls on each side.

From Project Gutenberg

A broad esplanade, ornamented with enormous orange-trees in boxes, and bordered with a massive stone balustrade extended across the entire front of the ch�teau, afforded a superb view of the surrounding country, and served as a court of honour for the castle, which was a chef d'œuvre of the renaissance type of architecture, with big cylindrical cone-roofed towers with highly decorated dormer windows, and tall chimneys that strongly reminded the beholder of the grand yet fairy-like ensemble of the famous Ch�teau de Chambord.

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