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also gentlefolks
as in gentry
the highest class in a society
an 18th-century painter whose works are typically of well-dressed gentlefolk wooing and frolicking in sylvan settings
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Recent Examples of gentlefolk
Franken even delivered a handwritten note because that’s what gentlefolk of the Senate do.
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Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
For the most part, however, the contract is implicit, because the gentlefolk of Singapore know to mind their own business, while the authorities settle an intoxicating bliss on the clean, green city-state.
—The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
For the most part, however, the contract is implicit, because the gentlefolk of Singapore know to mind their own business, while the authorities settle an intoxicating bliss on the clean, green city-state.
—The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
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“Gentlefolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gentlefolk. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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