country gentleman
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of country gentleman
First recorded in 1625–35
Example Sentences
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Stanley Baldwin, then a rising Tory star who posed as a simple country gentleman, looked at the parliament elected in 1918 and claimed to see “hard-faced men who had done well out of the war”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2018
Ronald Carlile Buxton was a civil engineer and Norfolk country gentleman who in 1965 embarrassed Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson by defeating his foreign secretary, Patrick Gordon-Walker in a by-election at Leyton.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2017
"He would have preferred to dress like an English country gentleman, or like his idea of an English country gentleman," Margaret said in an interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2015
Even in his courtship of Taya, at a bar frequented by raucous SEALs, he is ever the country gentleman.
From Time ● Dec. 31, 2014
By 1856 Charles was breeding his own pigeons—Squire, the other pigeon fanciers nicknamed him, referring to the country gentleman that he was.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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