gentlefolk

Example Sentences

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Franken even delivered a handwritten note because that’s what gentlefolk of the Senate do.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2021

It can feel almost cruel to watch Chekhov’s great late plays from the smug vantage point of the present: we can see, all too clearly, the future that awaits his bewildered Russian gentlefolk.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019

The company of impeccably mannered gentlefolk who use the word “countenance” and love with fervor but no kissing is my preferred beta-blocker.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2015

"Illinois can't seem to decide whether it's the home of the mid-western gentlefolk or of the most draconian humans this side of Moscow," writes CNET's Chris Matyszczyk.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2015

“Roundabout here she called herself just Mrs. Tremain, but she was born Lavinia Lyte. She came of gentlefolk.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes