- (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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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...
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confidence man to be coined.
Operating in New York City in the late 1840s, a
genteelly dressed Thompson would approach an upper-class mark,
pretending they knew...
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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...
- people—mostly older,
mostly white—standing and
booing lustily, like some kind of
genteel lynch mob. I don't mean to use such
inflammatory language to
describe the...
- working-class
feistiness and
bluntly profane vocabulary initially repel the
genteel older woman." She
received her
first Screen Actors Guild award nomination...
- 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...
- Lisa
theory Some
researchers argue that it was
common at this time for
genteel women to
pluck these hairs, as they were
considered unsightly. Leonardo...
- 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...
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politicians and businesspeople. The
family was
among the hübsche ("courtly" or "
genteel")
families of the
Kingdom of Hanover, the
informal third elite group after...
