- (from Old
French genterie, from
gentil 'high-born, noble') are "well-born,
genteel and well-bred people" of high
social class,
especially in the past. Gentry...
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Genteel poverty is a
state of
poverty marked by one's
connection or
affectation towards a
higher ("
genteel")
social class.
Those in
genteel poverty are...
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Strictly Genteel is a
compilation album by
Frank Zappa. It
focuses on Zappa's "classical" and "serious" compositions, and as such is
something of a companion...
- A
Complete Collection of
genteel and
ingenious Conversation,
according to the most
polite mode and
method now used at Court, and in the best Companies...
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several of his
previous ones,
involving as it does
characters from A
Shabby Genteel Story and being, like The Newcomes,
narrated by the
title character of...
- Miss
Bates is a
supporting character in Jane Austen's 1815
novel Emma.
Genteel but poor, and a
compulsive talker, she is
memorably insulted on one occasion...
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politicians and businesspeople. The
family was
among the hübsche ("courtly" or "
genteel")
families of the
Kingdom of Hanover, the
informal third elite group after...
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guaranteed to put all
teeth on edge . . . a
movie of such
unrelieved genteelness that it
makes one long to head for Schrafft's for a double-gin martini...
- Reviewer: "The
phrase 'Kentucky Gentleman'
implies a
certain Southern genteelness, and frankly, no one
possessed with such
grace and
class would ever stoop...
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steely Miss Martha. She is
controlled and in control, unflappable. Her
genteel manners and
femininity co-exist
easily with her toughness."
Kidman had...
