Crossword clues for gentlefolk
gentlefolk
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gentlefolk \Gen"tle*folk`\, Gentlefolks \Gen"tle*folks`\, n. pl.
Persons of gentle or good family and breeding. [Generally in
the United States in the plural form.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. People of superior social position.
Usage examples of "gentlefolk".
Glys Meadowsweet, that her parents were not known to her, but were presumably gentlefolk of Castle Hagedom who had exceeded their birth tally.
If not, a stable will have to suffice, though I assume gentlefolk hereabouts ride swans just as they do elsewhere?
And as likely as not she belongs to gentlefolk too, poor ones maybe.
In a village some two leagues from this, where there are many people of quality and rich gentlefolk, it was agreed upon by a number of friends and relations to come with their wives, sons and daughters, neighbours, friends and kinsmen, and make holiday in this spot, which is one of the pleasantest in the whole neighbourhood, setting up a new pastoral Arcadia among ourselves, we maidens dressing ourselves as shepherdesses and the youths as shepherds.
Sukey had been enthralled by the notion of a hollow Earth lit by a small central sun, a land of tranquillity and invincible goodness, peopled by dwarfish gentlefolk possessing all wisdom and delight Had not the ancients told tales of subterranean Asar, Avalon, the Elysian Fields, Ratmansu, and Ultima Thule?