galantuomini

For they were galantuomini, and even thought themselves something better, and sometimes, when the wine was new, they talked of noble blood and said that their first ancestor had indeed been a son of

The Children of the King 1881

And now there are people on the road, slender, barefooted, brown women in dark wine-coloured woollen skirts and scarlet cloth bodices much the worse for wear, treading lightly under half-a-quintal weight of grapes; well-to-do peasant men -- galantuomini, they are all called in

The Children of the King 1881

What was supremely grotesque, in fact, was the essential opposition of theories -- as if a galantuomo, as HE at least constitutionally conceived galantuomini, could do anything BUT blush to "go about" at such a rate with such a person as Mrs. Verver in a state of childlike innocence, the state of our primitive parents before the Fall.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

What was supremely grotesque, in fact, was the essential opposition of theories -- as if a galantuomo, as HE at least constitutionally conceived galantuomini, could do anything BUT blush to "go about" at such a rate with such a person as Mrs. Verver in a state of childlike innocence, the state of our primitive parents before the Fall.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

What was supremely grotesque, in fact, was the essential opposition of theories -- as if a galantuomo, as HE at least constitutionally conceived galantuomini, could do anything BUT blush to "go about" at such a rate with such a person as Mrs. Verver in a state of childlike innocence, the state of our primitive parents before the Fall.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

What was supremely grotesque, in fact, was the essential opposition of theories -- as if a galantuomo, as HE at least constitutionally conceived galantuomini, could do anything BUT blush to "go about" at such a rate with such a person as Mrs. Verver in a state of childlike innocence, the state of our primitive parents before the Fall.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

What was supremely grotesque, in fact, was the essential opposition of theories -- as if a galantuomo, as HE at least constitutionally conceived galantuomini, could do anything BUT blush to "go about" at such a rate with such a person as Mrs. Verver in a state of childlike innocence, the state of our primitive parents before the Fall.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

What was supremely grotesque, in fact, was the essential opposition of theories -- as if a galantuomo, as HE at least constitutionally conceived galantuomini, could do anything BUT blush to "go about" at such a rate with such a person as Mrs. Verver in a state of childlike innocence, the state of our primitive parents before the Fall.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

_mezzo-galantuomini_, as their countrymen call them, that a fine coin is always worth _what you can get for it.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

Outside his own class he recognised the higher social distinctions and, while preserving his own self-respect and never stooping to obsequiousness, felt for the galantuomini (that is for the townspeople) and for the signori (that is for the patricians) a real submission which he displayed both in acts and words by protecting their persons and their reputations; so that no thief or evil-liver dared to commit any crime against one who was known to be protected by a Cristiano.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889