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Example sentences for: gentry

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For those with time, a romantic way to visit some of the best is on the burchiello, a modern version of the rowing barge that took the gentry, Casanova, and Lord Byron to their trysts and parties in the country.
He derides the BBC and respectable newspapers as "unpopular" media subsidized by a condescending, out-of-touch gentry.
At the corner of St James's Place and St James's Street was the map store owned by Sir Francis Chichester, of single-handed sailing fame; across St Jame's Street was-- still is--Boodle's, a club for the gentry; round the corner was the famous French restaurant, Prunelle's.
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.