gentleman-commoner
Americannoun
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gentlemen-commoners
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Etymology
Origin of gentleman-commoner
First recorded in 1680–90
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But the universities were still open to Louis Philippe, and before he was eighteen he was entered as a gentleman-commoner at Trinity.
From Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
I. "Have you any idea who that fresh gentleman-commoner is?" said I to Savile, who was sitting next to me at dinner, one day soon after the beginning of term.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
The apostasy of a gentleman-commoner would of course be for a time the chief subject of conversation in the common room of Magdalene.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
In 1804 he proceeded to Oxford, where he entered in Magdalen College as a gentleman-commoner.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
You know I lead no life of self-indulgence; and the necessary expenses, even as a gentleman-commoner, are less than you would suppose, unless you had tried matters as closely as I have.”
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various
In the first place, under their auspices, gentlemen-commoners increased and multiplied; in fact, the eldest sons of baronets, even squires, were scarcely admitted on any other footing.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
No one feeds at the high table except the dons and the gentlemen-commoners, who are undergraduates in velvet caps and silk gowns.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
Especially were they the rule among the noblemen and gentlemen-commoners, who were privileged by their birth and wealth, and to whom by the servility of the Dons every license was allowed.
From Oxford and Her Colleges by Goldwin Smith
Luckily, as you know, it has always been given out here that all under-graduates, gentlemen-commoners and commoners, have to pass the same college examinations, and to attend the same course of lectures.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
And so his fame travelled far beyond his own collegiate walls, and out-college honourables and gentlemen-commoners were content to make the acquaintance, and eat the dinners that were so freely offered.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
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