gentry.
Birth; condition; rank by birth.
Meaning & usage
Birth; condition; rank by birth.
Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
People of education and good breeding.
landed gentry
English gentry
In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
Where this word comes from
From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.
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