gentlewomanlike, a.
(ˈdʒɛnt(ə)lwʊmənˌlaɪk)
[f. prec. + like.]
a. Of persons: Having the manners, appearance, or air of a gentlewoman. b. Of conduct, etc.: Appropriate to a gentlewoman.
| 1591 Horsey Trav. (Hakluyt Soc.) 213 A gentilweomanlike maiden..delivered me a curious white wraught hand⁓kercher. 1632 Brome North. Lasse i. iv. Wks. 1873 III. 9 And what a Minister she hath procur'd! A Devil in a most Gentlewoman-like apparition. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1768) VI. i. 4, I will provide for Dorcas Martindale in a gentlewoman like manner. 1832 Greville Mem. Geo. IV (1874) II. 335 He afterwards married the daughter of an innkeeper, who proved as gentlewomanlike as the other had been the reverse. 1862 C. M. Yonge C'tess Kate x. (1880) 117 You will write a proper and gentlewomanlike note. |