gentlefolk
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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
Marketed as “Tweedpunk”, Sir, You Are Being Hunted will put players in what appears to be a procedurally generated Derbyshire – complete with gorse, high grass and rocky outcroppings, being hunted mercilessly by robotic gentlefolk.
From Forbes ● Nov. 27, 2012
“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
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