How to Use country gentleman in a Sentence
country gentleman
noun-
In 1768, an anonymous country gentleman wrote a letter to the British Parliament commenting on this moral factor.
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Evan Fraser,
Foreign Affairs,
2011-01-30
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His love of Roman architecture had to be detached from urban life and was rooted in a very specific kind of historical fantasy about country gentlemen who also own slaves.
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Anne Quito,
Quartz,
2020-02-19
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