as in aristocrat
a man or woman of high birth or social position
gentlepersons did not want to be seen keeping company with commoners
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Noun
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Bellucci plays Giulio’s mother, a woman from the central Italian region of Umbria – which is where Bellucci comes from in real life – who is married to a Sicilian aristocrat.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
29 July 2025 -
This wealthy municipality west of Lisbon was a turn-of-the-century haunt for aristocrats in search of its therapeutic thermal waters, before finding wartime fame in the 1940s as a den of espionage on both sides thanks to Portugal’s neutrality.—
Zoë Dare Hall,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
Noun
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However, to prevent the glass furnaces from causing fires, the nobles exiled the glassmakers – under penalty of death – to the island of Murano.—
Peter Mullner,
The Conversation,
3 July 2025
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Landscape paintings and portraits of nobles jostled for attention alongside historical paintings and imagined scenes from Shakespeare’s plays.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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“Gentleperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gentleperson. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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