Gentry
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Gentry (origin Old French genterie, from gentil ‘high-born, noble’) denotes “well-born and well-bred people” of high social class, especially in the past.
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See also
- Aristocracy
- Nobility
- Clergy
- Landed gentry
- Landed property
- Gentleman farmer
- Gentlewoman
- Old Money
- Hochwohlgeboren
- Polish landed gentry
- Patrician (ancient Rome)
- Patrician (post-Roman Europe)
- Manorialism
- Estates of the realm
- Feudalism
- Szlachta
- Accolade
- Scholar-bureaucrats
- Junzi
- Redorer son blason
- Royal and noble ranks
- Ecclesiastical Addresses
- Royal and noble styles
- Style (manner of address)
- Forms of address in the United Kingdom
- Peerage
- Burke's Peerage
- Burke's Landed Gentry
- Debrett's Peerage
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