gentrice
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gentrice
- /ˈd͡ʒɛntɹɪs/
Where it comes from
From Middle English gentryse, from Old French genterise, variant form of gentelise, from gentil.
noun
- The state or quality of being high-born; gentility. “And where could I get a horse to him?” cried Alan, turning on her with the same appearance of fury. “Would ye have me steal?” […] “Ye neednae tell me,” she said at last—“ye’re gentry.” “Well,” said Alan, softened a little (I believe against his will) by this artless comment, “and suppose we were? D
- High-born individuals collectively; gentry. Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement. Others would threep she was gentrice, come of a persecuting family in the west, who had been ruined in the Revolution wars.
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