·adj Birth; condition; rank by birth.
II. Gentry ·adj Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
III. Gentry ·adj People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.
A gentleman. CANT. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A gentlewoman. ...
A gentleman's house. CANT. ...