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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
gentry mort en · NOUN
Meanings
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(UK, obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) A gentlewoman; a lady.
Chastity sighed in profound relief. To know a gentry mort like this was the most wondrous event of her life, and she craved her approval more than she did God's.
2006, Sally Watson, The Outrageous Oriel:No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.
1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit:You said I wasn't to use cant around a gentry mort, and here she's using it more than me.
2015, Sabrina Jeffries, The Art of Sinning:
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gentry cove