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- noun Plural form of
gentleperson .
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Things accomplished in fiction: Ladies, lads, and gentlepersons, we have a beginning.
February 26, 2010 2010
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Things accomplished in fiction: Ladies, lads, and gentlepersons, we have a beginning.
February 26, 2010 bogwitch64 2010
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"Most of our colleagues don't seem to grasp that we're not in a gentlepersons 'debate, we're in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules," Paul R. Ehrlich, a Stanford University researcher, said in one of the e-mails.
Mirror, Mirror James Taranto 2010
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They are comfortable with their guests who are gentlepersons with whom they can have erudite discussions.
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The fact is that Senator Clinton, despite Senator Kennedy, Governor Patrick, John Kerry, carried the home state of Massachusetts of those three gentlepersons by 15 percent.
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Ah, gentlepersons .... here in the great state of Mexico we do not get the TdeC with our plates.
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I've already mentioned my fulfillment of the gentlepersons 'agreement, but alas, I don't think I'll get to the plays -- my in-laws will be in town that weekend, and though I'll float the idea, I'm betting it won't fly, partly because I'm already absenting myself on Sun. a.m. to run the first ever NYC half-marathon on the roads, and partly because my father-in-law is embarrassingly narcoleptic where theater is concerned.
tropic of leo 2006
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One email said, "Most of our colleagues don't seem to grasp that we're not in a gentlepersons 'debate, we're in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules."
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"Most of our colleagues don't seem to grasp that we're not in a gentlepersons 'debate, we're in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules," Paul R. Ehrlich, a Stanford University researcher, said in one of the e-mails.
Reason Magazine Katherine Mangu-Ward 2010
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Stephen, we know why this is not a "gentlepersons 'debate"
Instructivist Instructivist 2010
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