gentleman-commoner
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of gentleman-commoner
First recorded in 1680–90
Example Sentences
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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
William had been entered as a gentleman-commoner of Christ Church, at the beginning of the Michaelmas term of 1660.
From William Penn by Hodges, George
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 Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
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 Trollope, Anthony
“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 Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various
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