gentry

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GEN'TRY, noun Birth; condition; rank by birth. 1. People of education and good breeding. In Great Britain, the classes of people between the nobility and the vulgar. 2. A term of civility; civility; complaisance.
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