Gentlewoman
['dʒent(ə)lwʊmən]
Definition
(n.) A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.
(n.) A woman who attends a lady of high rank.
Checker: Sinclair
Examples
- But you're only a gentlewoman, my poor dear child. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Astonished that the person who had brought me up should be a gentlewoman! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Since the Pegler affair, this gentlewoman had covered her pity for Mr. Bounderby with a veil of quiet melancholy and contrition. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It requires a gentlewoman--a Julia Bertram. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And advertising in the papers that a Gentlewoman of agreeable manners, and accustomed to the best society, was anxious to, &c. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But she is really quite the gentlewoman. Jane Austen. Emma.
Edited by Harold