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gentry Noun Brit old-fashioned people just below the nobility in social rank [Old French genterie]
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gentry noun nobility, lords, elite, nobles, upper class, aristocracy, peerage, ruling class, patricians, upper crust (informal) gentility, gentlefolk |
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--To acknowledge the kindness with which it has been received in all the principal towns of England through which the Show has passed, and where it has been most favourably noticed by the respected conductors of the public Press, and by the Nobility and Gentry. The parsonage here's a tumble-down place, sir, not fit for gentry to live in. The people in it are landed gentry, and they will begin to ask me questions, and to busy themselves about me. |
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