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gentleman-pensioner

American

[jen-tl-muhn-pen-shuh-ner] / ˈdʒɛn tl mənˈpɛn ʃə nər /

noun

(formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

gentlemen-pensioners

plural

Etymology

Origin of gentleman-pensioner

First recorded in 1620–30

Example Sentences

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For this purpose, Percy, who was at that time a gentleman-pensioner undertook to hire a house adjoining to the upper house of parliament with all diligence.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

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