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gentleman and scholar en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of scholar and gentleman.
   alt of scholar and gentleman
   • "You're a real prince. You're a gentleman and a scholar, kid," I said. 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 62:
   • His locked, letter’d braw brass collar shew’d him the gentleman an’ scholar. 1786, Robert Burns, The Twa Dogs:
   • BBC America recently ran a documentary called “Paparazzi” that also disabused viewers of any lingering impression that gossip rags are run by gentlemen and scholars. 2007 January 2, Alessandra Stanley, “Exposed: Celebrities, Tabloids and Sleaze!”, in New York Times:

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