gentry

gentry
   obsolete Irish
   the fairies
   These malevolent creatures had to be flattered although the appellation may have been less of a compliment than they imagined, given Catholic Irish opinion of much of the Anglo-Irish Protestant gentry:
    Biddy was known, too, to have the power of seeing the 'gentry', beings who creep out from every mousehole and from behind every rafter the minute a family has gone to sleep. (Lawless, 1892)

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Synonyms:
, (between the nobility and the vulgar)


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