gentry

Example Sentences

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The goal was to intimidate the hell out of Black people with guns so that they wouldn’t vote, because if they voted, the gentry would lose whatever was left of the South.

From Scientific American

"I wonder if they thought at the time they would be remembered along with gentry who were making appearances in the local press, immortalised by a small message in a whisky bottle."

From BBC

It added Portugal to the list of European gentry it has upended here, and it rode a 1-0 showcase of its mighty guts through a taut quarterfinal and clear to the final four.

From Washington Post

At that time he is merely the chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission, and his antagonists are not yet sympathetic proles but out-of-touch gentry.

From New York Times

Similarly, its costumbrismo, or costume paintings, capture the way Mexicans have decorated and dressed, stretching from buttoned-up Spanish gentry to elegant, high-fashion socialites in the 1960s.

From New York Times