1. 名詞
   名門世家, 上流人士
   /此名詞限定複數/
   

   同義字詞
   aristocracy,elite,gentility,gentry,nobility,upper class,upper crust
   

例句

1. We'll have no tricks played off by gentlefolks ; We'll see her righted.
2. She was wounded in her pride, unmoored from her anchorage ; she came of gentlefolks who kept servants –but details could wait.
3. 'There he goes, 'Who'd drive away our Christian gentlefolks , 'To catch us undefended in the trap 'He baits with poisonous cheese, and locks us up 'In that pernicious prison of Leigh Hall 'With all his murderers!
4. These are my people, quaint and ancient, Gentlefolks with their prim old ways; This, their leader come from England, Governed a State in early days. . . . . . . . . I must vanish with my ancients, But a golden web of love Is around us and beneath us, Binds us to our home above.
5. Every body remembered to have heard their fathers and grandfathers talk of the ancient glories of the Manor House in the days of the old Squire Burrows, and many were the traditions about the riches, liberality, and virtues of the real gentlefolks who once belonged to the Manor, and every body hoped for some vague benefit to themselves from the return of these good old times.