gentlewoman

How To Use gentlewoman In A Sentence

• An adolescent girl being prepared for her role as a gentlewoman, Elizabeth would have been provided with a well-furnished room and fine bed.
• Madam, said the gentlewoman, wit ye well he shall be with you tomorn by dinner time. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
• Before Lady Macbeth is shown walking in her sleep and wringing her hands that are sullied with the damned spot that all great Neptune's ocean could not wash away, her doctor and her waiting gentlewoman are sent to tell the audience of her "slumbery agitation. The Theory of the Theatre
• The King, who (till then) had beene very bad, dull, and slothfull, even as sleeping out his time of governement; beganne to revenge the wrongs done to this Gentlewoman very severely, and The Decameron
• A mere gentlewoman would be the wife or daughter of one of the gentry.
• The mother, being needy, was pleased with the offer; algates, having the spirit of a gentlewoman, she said, 'Madam, tell me what I can do for you; if it consist with my honour, I will willingly do it, and you shall after do that which shall please you.' The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
• I have not been terribly interested in the Post/Baldridge/ et al. cyclopedia approaches how to set the table and arrange your guests ,and which forks and spoons to use when and how, which glasses for the reds, whites, burgundies, etc., is pretty ubiquitously available, in as little or much detail as one might desire but rather in deeper treatments of the underlying elements of gentlemanly and gentlewomanly character and conduct. Archive 2008-09-07
• The gentlewoman of the period is acknowledged to be active in the household and estate management, public affairs and even government.
• It traces from Norman times into Victorian, although its definition of ‘servant’ is rather broad, seemingly from the lowest scullion to the Queen Elizabeth's Chief Gentlewoman, Blanch Parry.
• Tho when they were at rest there came a gentlewoman knocking at the door, and called Galahad, and so the good man came to the door to wit what she would. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table