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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.
The bridge across to Ile St-Louis leads to a blessed sanctuary of gracious living, its quiet streets lined by elegant houses and mansions, long popular with the city’s affluent 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.
This definition of FPM of Gentry et al.
The results—perhaps totally unforeseen—have rather been a shift in linguistic authority away from the gentry and Oxbridgians to the media.