Definition of Genteel

Genealogy

GENTEEL adjective

	Refined, after the fashion of a gent. Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your 'Unabridged' presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. G.J.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Geographer

Regular definition:

GENTEEL:
d?en?ti:l adj. 1 affectedly or ostentatiously refined or stylish. 2 often iron. of or appropriate to the upper classes. øøgenteelly adv. genteelness n. [earlier gentile, readoption of F gentil GENTLE]

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