"gentlefolks" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From gentle + folks.",
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          "ref": "1808 October 1, “Mrs. Bell’s Petition”, in The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor, volume III, London: Printed for Samuel Tipper, […]; T. Gillet, printer, […], →OCLC, page 286",
          "text": "What do gentlefolks come to an inn for, if it is not for entertainment and accommodation?",
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          "ref": "1827 August 18, W. P. S., “The Common-place Book. No. XIX. Novel Writers and Novel Readers.”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, volume X, number 269, London: Printed and published by J[ohn] Limbird, […], →OCLC, pages 118–119",
          "text": "If there be any evil in novels at all, it is when they take people from their business—when they occupy a mother's time to the neglect of her children—when they lead idle boys to neglect their lessons, and when they lead idle gentlefolks to fancy themselves employed, when they are only killing time.",
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          "ref": "1839 November 16, [Oliver Wendell Holmes], “The Question Asked”, in Supplement to the Connecticut Courant, volume V, number 46, Hartford, Conn.: John L. Boswell, publisher, →OCLC, page 361, column 1",
          "text": "I love to hear thy earnest voice wherever thou art hid, / Thou testy little dogmatist, thou pretty Katydid! / Thou mindest me of gentlefolks, old gentlefolks are they— / Thou say'st an undisputed thing, in such a solemn way.",
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          "ref": "1885 January, [Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant], “The Portrait. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXXXVII, number DCCCXXXI, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 13, column 1",
          "text": "\"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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