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View synonyms for gentlefolk
gentlefolk
or gen·tle·folks
[ jen-tl-fohk ]
noun
, (used with a plural verb)
- persons of good family and breeding.
gentlefolk
/ ˈdʒɛntəlˌfəʊk /
plural noun
- persons regarded as being of good breeding
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gentlefolk1
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Example Sentences
Lords not only ought to be gentlefolk, and be fed and waited upon and live in affluent idleness, but super-gentlefolk.
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My only fear was that the gallery might mistake his rather second-rate people for gentlefolk.
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Gentlefolk have "friends" stopping with them, never "company."
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Those few hundreds of French gentlefolk fell into a pit that most of them had been well content should exist for others.
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After all, bedders are to blame for the present lamentable state of things, just as much as gentlefolk.
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