Thesaurus / gentlewoman
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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.
OF COURSE GLASS ONION IS A BLAST. BUT IT CUTS DEEPER THAN KNIVES OUT, TOO.ALISSA WILKINSONNOVEMBER 23, 2022VOXLike 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.
THE LOST YEAR: EXERCISE IN QUARANTINE, KEEPING A BUSINESS ALIVE, AND THE UNUSUAL INTIMACY OF ZOOMEMILY VANDERWERFFDECEMBER 31, 2020VOXHe is unfit to be called a man, he is unworthy to marry a gentlewoman; and as for that hussy, I disown her.
MEMOIRS OF MR. CHARLES J. YELLOWPLUSHWILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMr. Hill came to tell me that he had got a gentlewoman for my wife, one Mrs. Ferrabosco, that sings most admirably.
DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, COMPLETESAMUEL PEPYSHe sends for the young Sister; very pretty indeed, and a gentlewoman by birth, though penniless.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. VII. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLEI will take no less for it, young gentlewoman; it has caused me a world of trouble.
LAVENGROGEORGE BORROWUnder other circumstances I should have judged her to have been a gentlewoman.
THE ESCAPE OF A PRINCESS PATGEORGE PEARSONHer silk stockings and buckled slippers marked a desire to be the gentlewoman.
THE FALSE CHEVALIERWILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALLThere is a not mild maternal tigress caged somewhere inside of the gentlewoman.
THE RED CITYS. WEIR MITCHELLThe gentlewoman, conscious of being robbed, seized the thief by the gown, and she was immediately conducted to the Compter.
THE CHRONICLES OF CRIME OR THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. V. 1/2CAMDEN PELHAMWORDS RELATED TO GENTLEWOMAN
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