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gentish, a.|ˈdʒɛntɪʃ|
[f. gent n. + -ish.]
Resembling, or characteristic of, a ‘gent’.
1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xxix. (1879) 262 His clothes, although cut in a slangy gentish fashion, were of good materials and work. 1857Chamb. Jrnl. VII. 369 However gentish and impudent its followers may previously have been. 1862Temple Bar Mag. IV. 289 To disport himself in his gentish garments on..a river-steamer.
Hence ˈgentishness.
1885Mag. of Art Apr. 247 Women of excellence and originality, who had the courage to reprove the gentishness and snobbery by which they were surrounded. |
