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• The landless younger sons of the gentry often entered the military as the only way to make a living.From the entry landless
• In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.September 2001, Waldemar Kowalski, “Converts to Catholicism and Reformed Franciscans in Early Modern Poland”, in Church History, volume…. From the entry pertinaciously
• Gentry Steele (professor of anthropology, physical anthropologist, and zoarchaeologist Texas A&M University), and Peter W.1999, O. W. Hampton, Culture of Stone: Sacred and Profane Uses of Stone Among the Dani, page xxiv. From the entry zoarchaeologist
• Sung Chiao-jen was born into a lower gentry household in T’ao-yüan County, Hunan.[1992, “SUNG CHIAO-JEN”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Taoyuan
• You said I wasn't to use cant around a gentry mort, and here she's using it more than me.2015, Sabrina Jeffries, The Art of Sinning. From the entry gentry mort
• The donnée is from Boccaccio's Decameron, where a party of Florentine gentry flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry donnée
• The Chinese gentry, so far as they still existed, preferred to work with him rather than with the feudalist Huns.1960, Wolfram Eberhard, A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]. From the entry feudalist
• Gentry or not, the swaggies would go from place to place in the hope of being given work, a meal and somewhere to sleep.2015, Patricia Grace, Chappy, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry swaggie
• To know a gentry mort like this was the most wondrous event of her life, and she craved her approval more than she did God's.2006, Sally Watson, The Outrageous Oriel. From the entry gentry mort
• In one half, merchants, professionals, speculators and country gentry, wigged, stocked, breeched and buckled, hold a million post-mortems on the day's dealings.2005, Trevor Griffiths, These are the Times: A Life of Thomas Paine, page 13. From the entry skillman
• Most of the time, the rural gentry was pulled apart by parochial interests and divided along geographic lines into blocs of regional power.1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in…. From the entry Luoshan
• Gentry militia in Luoshan county, for instance, reportedly refused to help the Guangshan gentry when it was under attack by the Communists.1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in…. From the entry Luoshan
• The net result of both wars was the victory of an armsbearing equestrian gentry with a lifestyle radically different from that of the courtiers.1979, Carl Steenstrup, Hōjō Shigetoki (1198-1261) and His Role in the History of Political and Ethical Ideas in Japan, Curzon Press…. From the entry armsbearing
• In Chang-hua and Tainan the local gentry who managed the finances and supplies for the war effort had a more difficult task.1970, Leonard H. D. Gordon, editor, Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 41. From the entry Chang-hua
• They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the gentry.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16. From the entry gey
• At her table many a scathing dissertation on the nobodiness of nobodies had been given the youthful gentry of the Province, a fact not unknown to Germain.2019, W. D. Lighthall, The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette. From the entry nobodiness
• Walpole’s Robinocracy undermined the principle of consent dear to radical Whigs by seducing the otherwise independent Country (landed gentry) with the blandishments of Court (ministerial) favors.2013, Joseph F. Kett, Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century, Ithaca, N.Y.…. From the entry Robinocracy
• Another report from Yanghsin county down the Yangtze mentioned ten gentry, leaders of dissatisfied old-style policemen, and secret societies angry at the desecration of “superstitious” temples.[1977, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London…. From the entry Yangxin
• For a week or ten days we put up in London at a smart, rather exclusive second- or third-class haunt of the decade's nobility and gentry—the Artillery Mansions.1946, William Allen White, Autobiography, page 411. From the entry put up
• Over the years, historians of the late-medieval English gentry have mapped out several working models to explain the character and behavior of landed society in various localities around the country.2006, J. S. Hamilton, Fourteenth Century England - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry landed society
• The women wear neck-kerchieves spreading over their shoulders, and ruffs, but their aprons show that they are shop-keepers rather than gentry; their high-crowned felt hats are of the mid-Elizabethan fashion.1978, Joanna Bird, Hugh Chapman, John Clark, editors, Collectanea Londiniensia: Studies in London Archaeology and History Presented to…. From the entry neck-kerchief
• I mean, Mayfair is just top spivs stepping into the slippers of the former gentry, and Belgravia, like I've said, is all flats in houses built as palaces, and Chelsea—well!1960 [1959], Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, New York: Macmillan, page 65. From the entry spiv

Meaning of gentry

1. noun Birth; condition; rank by birth.
2. noun Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
3. noun People of education and good breeding.

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How do you use gentry in a sentence?

Gentry is used as a noun. For example: “The manor was owned by the local gentry.”

What is a short sentence with gentry?

“She wrote novels about the rural gentry.”

What does gentry mean?

Gentry means birth; condition; rank by birth.