gentlemen-farmers
- plural of gentleman-farmer.
Example Sentences
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When they come into some money, they move to Normandy and become gentlemen-farmers, foreseeing "mountains of fruit, torrents of flowers, avalanches of vegetables."
From Time Magazine Archive
He belonged to the class known as gentlemen-farmers, and of that class he was one of the most respected.
From Speeches from the Dock, Part I by Various
There were also gentlemen-farmers, neatly, trimly, and fashionably dressed, in handsome surtouts, and trousers strapped under their boots.
From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
There were also gentlemen-farmers, neatly, trimly, and fashionably dressed, in handsome surtouts and trousers, strapped under their boots.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
"But there be four gentlemen-farmers that have come a great distance, and all the first floor is engaged; you will be more out of the noise here."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
