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Example sentences for: gentry

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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.
And a residue of estates reminds voters of the landed gentry's historic role as parasites.
At stake was the class structure of the South with its landed gentry commanding a servile class of laborers.
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.
The results—perhaps totally unforeseen—have rather been a shift in linguistic authority away from the gentry and Oxbridgians to the media.