English
Noun
gentlefolks pl (plural only)
- (nonstandard) gentlefolk
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1827, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,:- If there be any evil in novels at all, it is when […] they lead idle gentlefolks to fancy themselves employed, when they are only killing time.
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1881, Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant, The Open Door, and the Portrait.:- "Ah!" she said, with a little cry of disappointment, "my man said not to make too sure, and that the ways of the gentlefolks is hard to know."
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1922, Lafcadio Hearn, Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn:- Thou mindest me of gentlefolks,-- Old gentlefolks are they,-- Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way.