Significados de decay gentlewoman em inglês

Probably you have seen frequent mention in English publications about decayed gentlewomen.

You would have enjoyed giving them to a decayed gentlewoman.

Any relatives I have are in homes for decayed gentlewomen!

The ostensible manager of this repository was generally a decayed gentlewoman, a clergyman's widow, or so forth.

Get out of it, you decayed gentlewoman!

The three youngest girls in the family were tutored by Miss Eufemia Sotomayor, a decayed gentlewoman from Mexico.

Sir Harry is too disgusting with his ' decayed gentlewomen.' I meant to read him a lesson some time.

A very savage parish was civilised by a decayed gentlewoman, who came among them to teach a petty school.

"But I am not a decayed gentlewoman," Hester objected; "at least, not yet.

I daresay Nelly is a better servant-notwithstandingthe unfortunate chickens of to-day, which was our own fault, you know-thanthe decayed gentlewoman.

"May I humbly ask if these decayed gentlewomen are to inhabit their palatial retreat rent-free?"

She was precisely of the type of decayed gentlewoman that one meets often in the city, especially at some of the middle-class boarding-houses.

"There was near his parish a very nice-charity,"-herbreathcaught itself pathetically,-"somemost comfortable almshouses for decayed gentlewomen.

"My advice," put in Mrs. Honeychurch, "is to have nothing to do with Lucy and her decayed gentlewomen at all.