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Gentry n.

Birth; condition; rank by birth. (Obs.) "Pride of gentrie." "She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath."

People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.

Courtesy; civility; complaisance. (Obs.) "To show us so much gentry and good will."

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... and were suspected of a desire to preserve their consideration and their estates. The desertion in France was to aid an abominable sedition, the very professed principle of which was an implacable hostility to nobility and gentry, and whose savage war-whoop was, "A l'Aristocrate!"—by which senseless, bloody cry they animated one another to rapine and murder; whilst abetted by ambitious men of another class, they were crushing everything respectable and virtuous ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... bead on you, Gentry!" put in a third. "The best shot in the county, Mr. Sheriff, and ...

— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

... exceptions. Because a small portion of the American population understand what good cookery is, it by no means follows that all do. Who would think of saying that the people of England live on white bait and venison, because the nobility and gentry (the aldermen inclusive) can enjoy both, in the seasons, ad libitum? I suspect this Mr. Cooper knows quite as well what he is about, when writing of America, as any European. If pork fried in grease, and grease pervading half ...

— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper

... dress (viz., a silver helmet, a flowing periwig, a cuirass of gilt leather richly embroidered, a light blue velvet mantle, and crimson morocco half-boots): and in this habit I rode my bay horse Brian, carried off three rings, and won the prize over all the Duke's gentry, and the nobility of surrounding countries who had come to the show. A wreath of gilded laurel was to be the prize of the victor, and it was to be awarded by the lady he selected. So I rode up to the gallery where the Countess Ida was seated behind the Hereditary ...

— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray

... a finger to the other, in a manner and with an impressive look that was instantly comprehended. "I neither agree wholly with the one nor the other of these gentlemen. 'Tis said that, since our appearance on the coast, the dwellings of many of the gentry are guarded by small detachments of ...

— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper

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