They were described as being a genteel woman of middle years and a male servant.

The sheriffs wife, who was a mild and genteel woman, happened to be passing in the corridor.

At the turn of the century private schools provided business opportunities for genteel women seeking employment.

His mother was a genteel, pious woman who was a legal secretary and looked on Paul as her favorite child.

Some researchers claim that it was common at this time for genteel women to pluck these hairs, as they were considered unsightly.

After 1880, he rarely featured genteel women at leisure, focusing instead on working women.

That, combined with his bad reputation, would have been a powerful lure to a genteel woman born and bred in Philadelphia.

The well-dressed genteel women had done their duty, but they really did not know her.

"Mine was the last class of genteel and ladylike women," she said.

As always, my wife proves useful in ways that a more genteel woman never would.