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What does gentry mean?

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Noun
  1. Birth; condition; rank by birth.
  2. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
  3. People of education and good breeding.
  4. (Britain) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
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Mainly, the landed gentry did not want a messy, noisy railway anywhere near them.
Death duties probably appeal to old Labourites as a way to punish the landed gentry.
Now, when I say fox hunting I mean the pack hounds and mounted gentry type of hunt.
The Glamorgan gentry patronized the boisterous village wakes, and even established new ones in communities which lacked them.
His portraits already included classical allusions which gained him many patrons among the grand tourist gentry.
For the landed gentry, it was usually a snack to tide you over between luncheon and a late dinner.

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