Gentlewoman

(n.) A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

(n.) A woman who attends a lady of high rank.

整理:辛克莱

• But you're only a gentlewoman, my poor dear child. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Astonished that the person who had brought me up should be a gentlewoman! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Since the Pegler affair, this gentlewoman had covered her pity for Mr. Bounderby with a veil of quiet melancholy and contrition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It requires a gentlewoman--a Julia Bertram. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• And advertising in the papers that a Gentlewoman of agreeable manners, and accustomed to the best society, was anxious to, &c. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• But she is really quite the gentlewoman. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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