30 examples of gentilhomme in sentences

More, he was past middle-age: sixty-five at least, not a sportsman, nor a naturalist, but obviously a gentilhomme, with the manners of one accustomed to the best society.

Ah, vous êtes un gentilhomme, vraiment.

[Slang], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling^; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin^, looby^, rube [U.S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot- wallopper^, slubberdegullion^; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon. upstart, parvenu, skipjack^; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites [Lat.], pessoribus orti [Lat.]; bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.], novus homo

; scruple; point, point of honor; punctuality. dignity &c, (repute) 873; respectability, respectableness &c adj.; gentilhomme

A charming picture of Manila street life, full of local color, is given in the very amusing Aventures d'un Gentilhomme Breton.

I met M. de la Gironnière in Calauan, the "gentilhomme Breton" who is so well known for telling the most terrible adventures.

"Le gentilhomme," said one of the generals, in acknowledgment of their readiness at a peculiarly critical moment, "est toujours gentilhomme, et se montre toujours tel dans besoin et dans le danger"a eulogy as applicable to them as it was in later days to La Tour d'Auvergne, styled the first grenadier of France.

"Le gentilhomme," said one of the generals, in acknowledgment of their readiness at a peculiarly critical moment, "est toujours gentilhomme, et se montre toujours tel dans besoin et dans le danger"a eulogy as applicable to them as it was in later days to La Tour d'Auvergne, styled the first grenadier of France.

The original runs thus: "Timoleon, Duc de Brissac, Dieu t'a fait gentilhomme, le roi t'a fait duc, fais toi la barbe, pour faire quelque chose."

In Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme he is a count in love with the marchioness Doremène (1670).

Dorimène, the marchioness, in the Bourgeois Gentilhomme, by Molière (1670).

See Yriarte, Vie d'un Gentilhomme de Venise, p. 439, for a process instituted by the Inquisition against Paolo Veronese.

Ravenscroft's play, which is a bald translation from the "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" of Molière, was successful, chiefly owing to the burlesque procession of Turks employed to dub the Citizen a Mamamouchi, or Paladin.

'No man can say "I'll be genteel,"' iii. 53. Gentilhomme.

'Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme' (Boswell), i. 492.

'Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme' (Boswell), i. 492.

A fine thing it is to know something!" says M. Jourdain in the "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" of Molière.

L'auteur étoit gentilhomme, et l'on s'en aperçoit sans peine quand il parle de chevaux, de châteaux forts et de joutes.

Le lendemain de notre arrivée, un gentilhomme de Bavière vint saluer mondit seigneur de Valse.

Who can improve by translation what the German "Gemüth" signifies, or who does not feel the difference between the two words verbally so closely allied as the English gentleman and the French gentilhomme? Bushido, then, is the code of moral principles which the knights were required or instructed to observe.

ou sinon, vrai comme je me nomme Empereur des Romains, roi d'Arle et gentilhomme, Lion, tu vas japper ainsi qu'un épagneul.

"Monsieur the curé, there is no such comfortable doctrine for a man with a daughter," said a figure at the nearest loophole, turning and revealing himself by face and presence a gentilhomme.

grand merci, mon beau gentilhomme!"

quickly"What will your bravery avail against so many, mon beau gentilhomme?

While already in the seventeenth century the ambition of rich bourgeois to gain admission to the exclusive circles of the nobility had been sufficiently marked to induce Molière to attack it in his Bourgeois gentilhomme, it was even more noticeable in the eighteenth, and mésalliances between noblemen and women of the middle class became much more frequent.

30 examples of  gentilhomme  in sentences