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Example sentences for: gentry

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The British, who didn't go through the dislocation (and revivification) of a revolution, simple allowed the gentry to establish the colloquial norm for those who counted themselves among the educated, and mined the literature for texts to constitute a canon that would be taught as a stylistic and, as a by-product, grammatical model.
He derides the BBC and respectable newspapers as "unpopular" media subsidized by a condescending, out-of-touch gentry.
Designed by Louis le Vau in 1668 to harmonize with the Louvre across the river, the Institut began as a school for the sons of provincial gentry, financed by a legacy of Cardinal Mazarin.
A landed gentry made up of army officers, government officials, and commercial speculators ran the province, creating a hereditary aristocracy known as the Family Compact.
At the upper end of the social scale, Malays make up the royal courts of the sultanates — country gentry enjoying an occasional game of polo and the other good things in life.