Definition of "gentlefolk" []

• Persons of good family and relatively high station. (noun-plural)

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• "These are what she calls gentlefolk's airs, I suppose!"
• "It were a better feeling if the "gentlefolk" would only patronize ornaments of a certain value, or none at all, but I suppose such a stretch of self-denial would be quite beyond the powers of resistance pertaining to human, or rather woman's nature."
• "In them he tells various fairy tales, of changeling children, and of the "gentlefolk"."