| 释义 |
gently born archaic (Of a person) having the qualities attributed to noble birth; courteous and chivalrous: my family may be silly, but we are still gently born and bred...- Politics and generalship were becoming professions and skills, no longer merely one of the varied activities of the gently born.
- He went on to tell us how gently born ladies took to eating porridge off earthenware, and how they dug in their gardens, and how the sap of life sang in their veins.
- The character described is gently born and enjoys all the grandeurs expected of someone in her social class.
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