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Webster 1913 Edition
Gentlewoman
Gen′tle-womˊan
,Noun.
pl.
Gentlewomen
. 1.
A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.
Bacon.
2.
A woman who attends a lady of high rank.
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gentlewoman
GEN'TLEWOMAN
,Noun.
1.
A woman who waits about the person of one of high rank.2.
A term of civility to a female, sometimes ironical.