Genteel vs Gentry - What's the difference?
genteel | gentry |
Affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite.
Polite and well-mannered.
Stylish or elegant.
Aristocratic
Birth; condition; rank by birth.
Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
People of education and good breeding.
(British) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.