- (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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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...
- 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...
- Reviewer: "The
phrase 'Kentucky Gentleman'
implies a
certain Southern genteelness, and frankly, no one
possessed with such
grace and
class would ever stoop...
- to be
Solomon Northup for me. I was
looking for
someone that had that
genteelness, that kind of humanity.
Knowing that
humanity was
going to be tested...
- Miss
Bates is a
supporting character in Jane Austen's 1815
novel Emma.
Genteel but poor, and a
compulsive talker, she is
memorably insulted on one occasion...
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everything Victorian. He had a "blunter intention" than
presenting the
genteel,
sweet prince of 19th-century tradition,
imbuing his
character with virility...
