gentry

the newspaper gentry (=the gentry of the press)

these parish gentry were conscious of their elevated status.

Landed income was the true measure of the gentry.

radar devices beyond the comprehension of all but the bespectacled gentry who invented them.

The methods they employed were heavily biased in the gentry’s favour.

The so-called golden-collar gentry are essentially nothing but brain-workers with high income.

Later she may have begun to kill daughters of lower gentry, who were sent to her gynaeceum by their parents to learn courtly etiquette.

Chapslee offers a chance to enjoy the dandified life of the English gentry at a price which would barely buy afternoon tea in an English country house.

In the afternoon, the local gentry go to some farm house and have tea, sillabub and other refreshments and then return in a... dance to the town and dance throughout the streets till dark.

Virginia creepers, asters, and other colonial exotica to a delighted English gentry.

You had yeomen who were sort of smaller versions of gentry.

The gentry received one another, and traveled to each other's houses, in a state almost feudal.

There's only so many vowels you can drop until someone realizes you're not landed gentry.

" Because in twenty or thirty years your landed gentry won't be here in any case" .

Those gentry who wore georgette thought that the universe was geocentric.

They're cur'ous talkers i' this country, sir; the gentry's hard work to hunderstand 'em.

So naturally, it would go to a court companion, such as, the son of a nobleman or a member of the gentry.

The only genuine sport in all the fair, gentlemen—highly respectable and strictly moral—patronized by the nobility, clergy, and gentry.

One could tell that he had frequented the best authors as assiduously as Elliott Templeton frequented the nobility and gentry.