gentleman caller
Example Sentences
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You don’t seem to have met your lady friend’s gentleman caller, but this would be a good first step.
From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022
She is the faintly daffy Aunt Lavinia, who derives a weirdly vicarious excitement from her niece’s gentleman caller, and who – as we might say now – lives for the drama.
From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2019
On a spring day in recent memory, I was strolling up Ninth Avenue alone, after leaving a bistro lunch with a gentleman caller and my soon-to-finish-N.Y.U. son.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 11, 2016
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams’ classic drama about a struggling writer, his domineering mother, fragile sister and a gentleman caller.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2015
Lily was quiet during the entire ride, whereas my mother chatted nervously, giving advice about curfews and the procedure for receiving a gentleman caller and housemothers and vespers on Wednesdays.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
