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gentry cove en · NOUN
Meanings
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(UK, obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) A gentleman.
He's a go among the goes, is Mr. Kestrel. He's only got to sport a new kind of topper, or tie his crumpler a new way, and every gentry-cove in town does just the same.
2012, Kate Ross, A Broken Vessel:'The gentry cove will be romboyled by his dam,' said a third gipsy. 'Queer Cuffin will be the word yet, if we don't tout.'
1837, Benjamin Disraeli, chapter XIV, in Venetia:As priest of the game, / And prelate of the same. / There's a gentry cove here.
1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:
Forms
Coordinates
gentry mort
Deriveds
gentry cove's ken