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gentleman farmers
n. (gentleman farmer English)
Usage examples of "gentleman farmers".
T'Rehu then came down on them - little pieces of the world, county-sized by Earth standards, full of gentleman farmers busy scratching their livings out of a still-protesting planetand she burned their crops and houses and killed those who resisted, and captured those who did not.
These were all gentleman farmers, lawyers and businessmen who maintained farms not for living so much as for the status such ownership implied.