Meanings of gentilhomme in English

Je suis trop bourgeois to incur the ridicule of le bourgeois gentilhomme.

I, too, am by descent gentilhomme, by profession a speculator on the Bourse.

Je suis gentilhomme, which means more or less than a gentleman.

The Marquis of Saint Simon, premier 'gentilhomme' of the Prince de Conde, escorted her.

Princes travel incognito, and so may a simple gentilhomme.

The Prince of Prussia gave his 'parole de gentilhomme' meaning the word of a rascal.

He is in the best society,-perfect gentilhomme,-and ,ashis name may tell you, a fellow-Breton.

If I carried the porter's knot of an Auverguat, I should still remain gentilhomme and Breton.

Clive's father, ce preux chevalier, ce parfait gentilhomme!

It does not require to be 'gentilhomme' to feel that: it is enough to be a Frenchman.

I'm serious now, foi de gentilhomme.

C'est un gentilhomme, ce vieux!

Leonie-shemarried a M. Surville, a silly bourgeois gentilhomme, who earned the hatred of Paris by taking her off the stage.

Krzyzanowska, fille d'un gentilhomme Polonais.]

We find him no longer "précepteur," but "gentilhomme de M. le Duc,"-nolonger, that is, a mere scholastic drudge, but a sort of lord-in-waiting.

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."