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"etymology_text": "genteel + -ish",
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"form": "more genteelish",
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"ref": "1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 97",
"text": "Not to detail the history minutely, there was a pretty numerous company, two genteelish ladies and their husbands, one a clergyman of buckish cast […] ."
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