Definition of "gentlefolks" []

• Gentlefolk (noun)

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• "Mrs. Poyser has something almost of Yankee shrewdness and angularity; but the figure of a New England rural housewife would lack a whole range of Mrs. Poyser's feelings, which, whatever may be its effect in real life, gives its subject in a novel at least a very picturesque richness of color; the constant sense, namely, of a superincumbent layer of "gentlefolks," whom she and her companions can never raise their heads unduly without hitting."
• "Go along about your business, miss; and don't you preshume to come to such a house as this durin 'gentlefolks' dinner-hours another time."
• "But Katy didn't care what "gentlefolks" did or did not do, and insisted upon having Punch called back."