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city gent en · NOUN
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(UK, informal) A businessman working in the City of London financial district.
Gone, never to return, is the famous minute bell at High Barnet, the sound of which has caused generations of ' City gents ' to precipitate themselves with most undignified acceleration down the steep station slope in an endeavour to scramble aboard the 8.34 a.m. Moorgate.
1940 October, “Notes and News: The High Barnet Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:
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