Definition of "gentil" [gen•til]

• Gentle. (adjective-and-noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "The Chief Justice was of that good old type, at sight of which the word gentil-homme springs naturally to one's lips He was small in figure, but his features were clearly cut, and the falling of the cheeks and deepening of lines produced by approach of age, had but imparted to them an increased, repose."
• "One teacher runs through a list of pupils with a new member of staff and says for each one: 'gentil' or 'pas gentil' ( 'nice' or 'not nice')."
• "Chaucer once wrote “He was a very parfait gentil knight, who never yet no villanie ne said unto no manner wight.”"