A court of honor (or court of honour) is a semi-official or unofficial tribunal constituted to determine various questions of social protocol, breaches of etiquette, and other allegations of breaches of honor, or entitlement to various honors. In English the term is also an architectural term (see Cour d'Honneur).
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“At court I met it, in clothes brave enough
To be a courtier, and looks grave enough
To seem a statesman.”
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