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Genteel poverty is a
state of
poverty marked by one's
connection or
affectation towards a
higher ("
genteel")
social class.
Those in
genteel poverty are...
- (from Old
French genterie, from
gentil 'high-born, noble') are "well-born,
genteel and well-bred people" of high
social class,
especially in the past. Gentry...
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Strictly Genteel is a
compilation album by
Frank Zappa. It
focuses on Zappa's "classical" and "serious" compositions, and as such is
something of a companion...
- A
Complete Collection of
genteel and
ingenious Conversation,
according to the most
polite mode and
method now used at Court, and in the best Companies...
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fiction of that time, much of it in the
style of "high-flown romance" and "
genteel realism",
needed a new
approach to
describe the
urban social, political...
- A lady's
companion was a
woman of
genteel birth who
lived with a
woman of rank or
wealth as retainer. The term was in use in the
United Kingdom from at...
- 37mm
autocannon on a
field mount, early... -
Armies of a
Genteel Age".
Armies of a
Genteel Age.
Retrieved 2018-11-12. Ezell,
Edward Clinton (1988). Personal...
- that the
sitter was from the
upper class. An
early 18th-century
guide on "
genteel behavior"
noted the pose
denoted "manly
boldness tempered with modesty...
- is. De
weledele heer/vrouwe 'the
honourable lord/lady' is used for the
genteel bourgeoisie. The
middle classes are
instead addressed with De heer/mevrouw...
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during the
Victorian era, Gas
Light and its
adaptations portray a
seemingly genteel husband using lies and mani****tion to
isolate his
heiress wife and persuade...
