Gentle

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A person of high birth.
   archaic
3. A maggot used as bait by anglers.
4. A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.

Equivalents

Examples

“Gentles, methinks you frown.”

“While actual medieval societies were full of lots of peasants and a few rich and noble gentles, SCA personas tend⟳ to be nobles rather than commoners.”

“Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles”

“Years ago, on Victoria's Port Phillip Bay, the recognised bait for garfish were `gentles', a genteel word for maggots, which were especially grown for gar fishermen.”

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