English

Noun

gentlefolks pl ‎(plural only)

1. (nonstandard) gentlefolk
   • 1827, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,:

     If there be any evil in novels at all, it is when […] they lead idle gentlefolks to fancy themselves employed, when they are only killing time.

   • 1881, Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant, The Open Door, and the Portrait.:

     "Ah!" she said, with a little cry of disappointment, "my man said not to make too sure, and that the ways of the gentlefolks is hard to know."

   • 1922, Lafcadio Hearn, Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn:

     Thou mindest me of gentlefolks,-- Old gentlefolks are they,-- Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way.