gentrice

There was, first, the belief in "gentrice," in a natural difference of kind between men of coat armour and men without it.

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

Burns, he carried very far his prejudices about his "gentrice," his gentle birth.

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

The man who kept the ferry-house was often enough in the custom of staying up all night to meet belated boats from Kilcatrine; we were gentrice and good customers, so he composed himself in a lug chair and dovered in a little room opening off ours, while we sat fingering the book.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Of us Clan Campbell people, gentrice and commoners, and so many of the Lowland mechanics of the place as were left behind, there would be something less than two hundred, for the men who had come up the loch-side to the summon of the beacons returned the way they came when they found MacCailein gone, and hurried to the saving of wife and bairn.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Well, she took the goodman to the castle, though a dumb dog he is among gentrice, and the trip must have been little to his taste.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

But I am ane that ken full weel that ye may wear good claithes, and have a saft hand, and yet that may come of idleness as weel as gentrice. '

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

'This Jesus of His gentrice will joust in Piers' armes,

Letters of Catherine Benincasa of Siena Catherine 1363

But I am ane that ken full weel that ye may wear good claithes, and have a saft hand, and yet that may come of idleness as weel as gentrice.’

Redgauntlet 2008

Duncan than any of your shore-side par-tans, who may be gentrice by sheepskin right but never by the glaive. "

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

I don't hold with gentrice who fetch their drink from London instead of helping local traders to get their living. "

The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton