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- those bygone days when young women were taught how to drink tea while wearing long gloves and other genteel ways of behaving
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- she grew up in genteel old Savannah
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- bourgeois,
- middlebrow
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- the genteel ladies never mixed with the servants
- prohibited by reason of her genteel birth from marrying the man she loved
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- his genteel gesture of holding the door for the ladies
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- acceptable,
- appropriate,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- comme il faut,
- correct,
- decent,
- decorous,
- fit,
- fitting,
- good,
- meet,
- proper,
- respectable,
- right,
- seemly,
- suitable
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The first known use of genteel was in 1601
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