(a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.
(a.) Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
Example Sentences:
(1) On tour, meanwhile, the band have supported some true indie gentry: Thurston Moore, the Breeders, Stephen Malkmus.
(2) The Red Army attacked despotic gentry and evil landlords, people who exploited our country and exploited individuals," she says, recalling her reasons for joining.
(3) We previously reported the cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding omega, which we call rpoZ (D. R. Gentry and R. R. Burgess, Gene 48:33-40, 1986).
(4) It was extremely tiring and cold, with nowhere to sit down and nothing they told us appeared to be correct.” Simon Gentry (@Simon_Gentry) The arrival of the #eurostar to collect us has now been pushed back to 8:30.
(5) Having sold his once-expensive books of literary theory for a derisory sum, he finds himself in a food store for "the super-gentry of SoHo and Tribeca", where the midsize piece of wild salmon he has selected has just been priced at $78.40 (2001 rates).
(6) Further analysis of conditioned media with antiserum to either a pro- [amino acid (aa) residues 1-220] or mature [aa 297-414] peptide of the TGF-beta 2 precursor suggests that TGF-beta 2, similar to TGF-beta 1 production in Chinese hamster ovary cells [Gentry et al., Mol.
(7) Kinsler at the plate and he gets jammed by a Price fastball but manages to muscle one just beyond the reach of the second baseman Zobrist who was pursuing the pop in right field - Gentry comes home and the Rangers have an important run back.
(8) Ikea has finally broken this silence, calling upon us to stop taking pictures of our food using our dearest role models: the landed gentry of 17th-century Europe.
(9) The stature of the Habsburg boys was greater than the poorest boys of contemporary London but compared unfavourably with the height of the English gentry and American cadets of the nineteenth century and, of course, with the height of today's populations.
(10) Having shocked purists by displaying a shark in formaldehyde and servicing his art with other dead and decaying animals, Hirst last week joined what once seemed a dying breed, the landed gentry.
(11) Previous studies (Gentry, L. E., Lioubin, M. N., Purchio, A. F., and Marquardt, H. (1988) Mol.
(12) Oh wait ... October 1, 2013 3.39am BST Rays 4 - Rangers 2, bottom of 7th Gentry skies to right center field and that's it for Texas in their half of the seventh.
(13) Gentry said it was only at that point that he felt Eurostar had let the passengers down.
(14) Landed gentry to self-made millionaires • Back to the top Duke of Westminster (Wealth: £7.9bn) Gerald Grosvenor and his family owe the bulk of their wealth to owning 77 hectares (190 acres) of Mayfair and Belgravia, adjacent to Buckingham Palace and prime London real estate.
(15) Best if you have a very big, paved garden, or a friend from the landed gentry.
(16) This is what happens when your city becomes a global reserve currency.” Before you know it a draughty Victorian terraced house in what was once a slum costs more than £1m Danny Dorling warns of the UK becoming a resort for the jet set: “London takes the role that Mayfair had in the past, where the gentry came in for the season.
(17) 1-beta-d-Arabinofuranosylthymine (ara-T), a metabolite of the sponge Tethya crypta, has shown selective activity against herpes simplex virus (HSV) replication (G. A. Gentry and J. F. Aswell, Virology 65:294-296, 1975).
(18) Good start in the home half - Gentry lines one off the glove of Escobar's great glove at shortstop, the ball heads to left field and the speedy left fielder is on.
(19) Matt Gentry, who previously looked after Murray's media commitments for Fuller's XIX Entertainment, will be managing director of the new company, working with Mahesh Bhupathi, who will be in charge of new business and sales, and Juan Martín del Potro's manager, Ugo Colombini, who will continue to be responsible for tournament-related activity.
(20) The same could happen on a global scale with the global gentry.” This model is not without benefits.
Yeomanry
Definition:
(n.) The position or rank of a yeoman.
(n.) The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.
(n.) The yeomanry cavalry.
Example Sentences:
(1) I find it very embarrassing when people ask what they should call me – then, I stumble.” Although he had to start learning the management of the family estates instead of taking up an army career as intended, Grosvenor did serve with the Territorials, in the Queen’s Own Yeomanry cavalry regiment, rising through the ranks, attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and eventually becoming a major-general and assistant chief of the defence staff with responsibility for the army reserves and cadets.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Duke of Westminster greets the Prince of Wales during the celebrations for The Queen’s Own Yeomanry’s 40th anniversary in 2011.
(3) From 1939 he served in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, was mentioned in dispatches and awarded a military OBE in 1944.
(4) As a teenager, she was a key witness in a celebrated murder case, the 1941 shooting of the 22nd Earl of Erroll, and at 17 she joined the first aid nursing yeomanry in the Women's Territorials during the second world war.
(5) Dunsby, who is from Somerset and worked as an analyst for the MoD, was a member of the Army Reserves (The Royal Yeomanry).
(6) And partly because I could (figuratively speaking) hear my father moving about in the basement.” Like many baby boomers, Motion, a youthful 61, lives in the shadow of the second world war, still coming to terms with the wartime career of his father, Richard, who landed at Gold Beach on D-Day as a 20-year-old tank commander with the Essex Yeomanry.
(7) But now he is the unlikely, urbane champion of an English yeomanry in rebellion against Brussels, and he can turn up for a solo gig at Nottingham’s Albert Hall, and get cheered to the rafters.
(8) Dunsby was a member of the Army Reserves (The Royal Yeomanry).
(9) He was an officer in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry, but an injury to his back limited his activity during the war.