gentlepeople
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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“If tennis is a sport for ladies and gentlemen,” she wrote in American Lawn Tennis, “it’s also time we acted a little more like gentlepeople and less like sanctimonious hypocrites.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2020
GMT07:24 The gentlepeople of the fourth estate are gathered.
From The Guardian • Nov. 3, 2015
The gentlepeople of the fourth estate are gathered.
From The Guardian • Nov. 3, 2015
“If tennis is a game for ladies and gentlemen, it’s also time we acted a little more like gentlepeople and less like sanctimonious hypocrites,” she wrote.
From Time • Jun. 29, 2015
Bill had taken four times that already, for the news of the giant had spread, and tradespeople in carts, and gentlepeople in carriages, came from far and near.
From Five Children and It by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
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