lady vs gentleman
Definitions
noun
- a woman of refinement
- a polite name for any woman
Examples
The lady was kissing a little lap dog.
Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.
I guess she would rather I expressed myself in a more ladylike manner, or at least a little more eloquently.
Definitions
noun
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
- a man of refinement
Examples
Then I saw how the ladies came alive at his gentlemanly attentions, how flattered they were by them.
As the male voice completed its speech, she slowly shifted herself around to face a gentleman of medium height who had a smiling, benign countenance on his careworn features.
The one are fellows called devilish good -- the other, fellows called devilish gentleman like.
