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gentee
† gentee, a. Obs. Also 7 jentee; and see jaunty. [ad. F. gentil (pronounced ʒɑ̃ti).] a. = genteel a. 4. b. = genteel a. 3.1664 Butler Hud. ii. i. 747 They are..So gentee, Alamode, and handsome. a 1680 ― Rem. (1759) I. 148 Taught the wild Arabs on the Road To act in a more gentee Mode. Oxford English Dictionary
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genty
genty, a. Obs. exc. Sc. (ˈdʒɛntɪ) [var. of gentee.] Neat; pretty; graceful; genteel.1721 Ramsay Genty Tibby 2 Her genty Shape our Fancy warms. 1724 ― Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 57 White is her neck, saft is her hand, Her waste and feet's fu genty. 1794 Burns My Lady's Gown iv, Sae sweetly move her genty... Oxford English Dictionary
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genteel
genteel, a. and n. (dʒɛnˈtiːl) Forms: 6–8 gentile, 8 gentil, 7– genteel. [A re-adoption, at the end of the 16th c., of F. gentil, which had been previously adopted in the 13th c., and had assumed the form gentle. The re-adoption first appears in the form gentile, distinguished from gentile (= non-Je... Oxford English Dictionary
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jaunty
▪ I. jaunty, a. (ˈdʒɔːntɪ) Forms: α. 7 jentee, juntee, shauntee, 7–8 jante(e, jauntee, 8 jantée, 8–9 janté. β. (7 ganty), 7–9 janty, 8 jantie, 8– jaunty. [First found in 17th c., in forms jantee (in 8 also jantée, janté) and janty, anglicized phonetic representations of F. gentil (pronounced ʒɑ̃ti),... Oxford English Dictionary
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