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Poor sanitation in some densely populated urban areas was a good breeding ground for cholera, he said.

She has upright posture and what would then have been described as “good breeding” and a “nice figure.”

Then, in the mid-19th century, Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published in Victorian England, where preoccupation with social class and “good breeding” was already a societal fixture among humans.

But Booth’s filthy clothes, unshaven face, and pungent body could not conceal his obvious good breeding.

Michael Billington of The Guardian, reviewing her there, wrote, “Carlin Glynn endows the madam with the refined good breeding and slight romantic forlornness of the head of a very classy, fee-paying American girls’ school.”