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

Then he assaulted toe first boughs manfully, while the gentlewoman ran about underneath, talking about hawks and husbands and toe nice weather they were having.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White