Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characteristic of an old gentleman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one.
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Examples
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It is evident from his conservative use of black powder, and the old-gentlemanly staidness of his movements, that he is an elderly gun.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens
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(He lights his pipe as ROBERT CRAWSHAW comes in.) (CRAWSHAW is forty-five, but his closely-trimmed moustache and whiskers, his inclination to stoutness, and the loud old-gentlemanly style in trousers which he affects with his morning-coat, make him look older, and, what is more important, the Pillar of the State which he undoubtedly is.)
First Plays 1919
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Pulteney did not even wait to be an old gentleman to take up with "the good old-gentlemanly vice."
A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871
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It was not avarice, that “good old-gentlemanly vice "of Byron's which influenced him, but it resembled it at times.
Beethoven A Character Study Fischer, George A 1905
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