Sentence examples for been gentlemen from inspiring English sources

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been gentlemen

noun

A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; an armiferous man ranking below a knight.

Being a gentleman, Robert was entitled to shove other commoners into the gongpit but he still had to jump out of the way of the knights to avoid the same fate himself.

synonyms

valet de chambre

man

valet

gentleman's gentleman

Exact(2)

"My colleagues had all been gentlemen," she told India Today, "but the new crop did not know how to behave in high society.

The New York Times

"To me they have always been gentlemen," said Manuel Torres, a skipper from Riveira.

Huffington Post

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"There are gentlemen's clubs.

The New York Times

"We were gentlemen, not hucksters".

The New York Times - Books

The men are gentlemen.

The New York Times - Magazine

But they were gentlemen".

The New York Times

The guys are gentlemen.

The Guardian

"These were gentlemen's hotels.

The New York Times

"There are gentlemen here too".

The New York Times - Style

Golf teaches players to be gentlemen.

The New York Times - Magazine

"They were gentlemen about it," Mr. Rodriguez said.

The New York Times

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