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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 Hughes, Thomas

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

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 Hughes, Thomas

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 Smith, Goldwin

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 Hughes, Thomas