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gentlewomanlike

adj

Etymology

From gentlewoman + -like.

  1. inherited from gentilwoman
  2. suffixed as gentlewomanlike — “gentlewoman + like”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a gentlewoman

    Characteristic of a gentlewoman; having the qualities of a gentlewoman.

    • She is good-looking, civil, and gentlewomanlike.
    • His wife, who was a coarse, vulgar woman, in the meantime died, and he afterwards married the daughter of an innkeeper , who proved as gentlewomanlike as the other had been the reverse, and who is very pretty besides.

  2. In a manner befitting a gentlewoman.

    • To clarify the spirit in which he undertakes the repayment of his loan, Mountford dresses himself "gentlemanlike" and requires Susan to dress "gentlewomanlike."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA