gentlefolk

Lords not only ought to be gentlefolk, and be fed and waited upon and live in affluent idleness, but super-gentlefolk.

My only fear was that the gallery might mistake his rather second-rate people for gentlefolk.

Gentlefolk have "friends" stopping with them, never "company."

Those few hundreds of French gentlefolk fell into a pit that most of them had been well content should exist for others.

After all, bedders are to blame for the present lamentable state of things, just as much as gentlefolk.