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Mon 20 Dec, 2010 05:47 am
is it a magazine or something like that?
@zhanglizoe,
there is a Gentry magazine
http://www.gentrymagazine.com/
as for the word
Gentry (origin Old French genterie, from gentil ‘high-born, noble’) denotes "well-born and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past.
@djjd62,
djjd62 wrote:
there is a Gentry magazine
http://www.gentrymagazine.com/
as for the word
Gentry (origin Old French genterie, from gentil ‘high-born, noble’) denotes "well-born and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past.
The word is far older than that, Gen being the equal of clan in Latin... Ultimately the meaning of the word rests on the honor of ones group, that it could trace its lineage into the distant past, and would defend its own to the death with vengeance... In a word: Ethical... As can be seen by the similarity of meaning between Ethnic and Genetic...
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