gentleman-pensioner
Americannoun
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gentlemen-pensioners
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gentleman-pensioner
First recorded in 1620–30
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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 John Foxe
The serjeants-of-arms followed, and then two lines again of gentlemen-pensioners walking, bare-headed, carrying wands, in short cloaks and elaborate ruffs.
From By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson
Then those choice spirits of the Court too, sitting or lying on either hand, and several of the gentlemen-pensioners on guard at each wing.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
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