English

Noun

gentry mort ‎(plural gentry morts)

1. (archaic, Britain, cant) A gentlewoman; a lady.
   • 1707, Shirley, John, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit:

     No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.

   • 2006, Watson, Sally, The Outrageous Oriel:

     Chastity sighed in profound relief. To know a gentry mort like this was the most wondrous event of her life, and she craved her approval more than she did God's.

   • 2015, Jeffries, Sabrina, The Art of Sinning:

     You said I wasn't to use cant around a gentry mort, and here she's using it more than me.

Related terms

• gentry cove

References

• Grose, Francis (1788) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper
• Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 1, page 400
• Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 3, page 132