Gentlewoman

Gen′tle-womˊan

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Noun.

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pl.

Gentlewomen

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1.

A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

Bacon.

2.

A woman who attends a lady of high rank.

Shak.

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Noun.

[gentle and woman.] A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

1.

A woman who waits about the person of one of high rank.

2.

A term of civility to a female, sometimes ironical.

gentlewoman ‎(plural gentlewomen)

(historical) A woman of the nobility.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Macbeth:
  Gentlewoman: Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon...

woman of the nobility