gentlewoman
Example Sentences
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“Portrait of a Court Lady,” acquired in 2013, shows the nearly life-size image of a refined gentlewoman seated on a garden terrace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
"Because being a polite gentleman or gentlewoman is all about first impressions," she said.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
One of his stories is about a Southern gentlewoman who keeps her dead fiance’s corpse in her bed.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
Schiff shot back, “As the gentlewoman should know, if she was present for the depositions — ”
From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2019
So the natural thing would have been for her to go out and live with Judith, the natural thing for her or any Southern woman, gentlewoman.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
