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gentlewoman::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dame, lady, ma'am, madam |
| Type of | adult female, woman |
| Has types | grande dame, madame |
Examples of gentlewoman
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Sylvia Townsend Warner wore the disguise of an English country gentlewoman.
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Henry Hager's mother, Maggie, is often described as the consummate Southern gentlewoman.
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Katharine learns English from her gentlewoman Alice in an 1888 lithograph by Laura Alma-Tadema.
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Other disconnected scenes show her dressed as a slave girl, or a 19th-century gentlewoman or 1990s bride.
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Mary Lou Forbes was a traditional Virginia gentlewoman.
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The object is a small portrait of an obscure Florentine gentlewoman, painted on a thin panel of poplar.
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Finally, Volumnia is sent to meet with her son, along with Coriolanus'wife Virgilia and child, and a chaste gentlewoman Valeria.
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How President Bush learns to deal with the gentlewoman from San Francisco will be a key story of the rest of his presidency.
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Six years later, in 1867, he is passionately reciting poetry to an attractive gentlewoman during a similar expedition to Hanover.
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- Dame: a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady"
- A gentlewoman (from the Latin gentilis, belonging to a gens, and English 'woman') in the original and strict sense is a woman of good family, analogous to the Latin generosus and generosa. ...
- A woman of the nobility
- This word is unknown to the law in the United States, and is but little used. In England. it was, formerly, a good addition of the state or degree of a woman. 2 Inst. 667.
