COUNTRY GENTLEMAN

Traducere în limba română

country gentleman substantiv

1. nobil de ţară.

2. provincial.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Sir George—whom, by-the-bye, I have forgotten to describe,—a very big, and very fresh-looking country gentleman, stands before their sofa, coffee- cup in hand, and occasionally puts in a word.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Something there was of Napoleon III., something of Don Quixote, and yet again something which was the essence of the English country gentleman, the keen, alert, open-air lover of dogs and of horses.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My aunt, looking very like an immovable Chancellor of the Exchequer, would occasionally throw in an interruption or two, as Hear! or No! or Oh! when the text seemed to require it: which was always a signal to Mr. Dick (a perfect country gentleman) to follow lustily with the same cry.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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