gentlewoman

There are spinsters, doctors, educated gentlewomen, badly behaved cads, servants, inspectors, ministers, you name it — all types who sometimes subvert but more often fulfill the stereotype.

Like my friend I used to play with in college, who worked in government and quit and now works in Virginia as a gentlewoman farmer, I had seen her maybe once in the last 10 years and now I see her every month.

He is unfit to be called a man, he is unworthy to marry a gentlewoman; and as for that hussy, I disown her.

Mr. Hill came to tell me that he had got a gentlewoman for my wife, one Mrs. Ferrabosco, that sings most admirably.

He sends for the young Sister; very pretty indeed, and a gentlewoman by birth, though penniless.

I will take no less for it, young gentlewoman; it has caused me a world of trouble.

Under other circumstances I should have judged her to have been a gentlewoman.