noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
landed
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The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see.
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The King appointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentry considered to be their prerogative.
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But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way.
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It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry .
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There were twenty-one knights, but these too were more often lawyers, merchants and colonial administrators rather than landed gentry .
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Parliament remained dominated by the aristocracy and by the landed gentry .
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The landed gentry abandoned the parish, selling off their land to speculative developers.
local
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Minna was with us and the local gentry were kind.
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They relied heavily on the readiness of the local aristocracy and gentry to go along with them.
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The traditional founts of charity, the church and the local gentry , had dried up.
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Other local gentry families were less fortunate in overcoming the crisis produced by some of their members.
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The race has changed in that it is no longer just the local gentry who take part.
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On this question all social grades had taken the same line - the need to seize local gentry estates.
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The rest of his men fled with the servants and the local gentry .
■ NOUN
family
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Nearly two-thirds of the town's 36 property qualifications were owned by a Warwickshire gentry family , the Goughs of Edgbaston.
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Other local gentry families were less fortunate in overcoming the crisis produced by some of their members.
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The most sought after positions were at the front, where the gentry families had their seats.
■ VERB
land
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It was the natural choice for the landed gentry and a symbol of aspiration for wealthy businessmen.
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Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
landed gentry/family/nobility
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But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way.
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For the landed nobility, the impact of Emancipation was deeply disturbing.
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It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
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Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.
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The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see.
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The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.
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The King appointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentry considered to be their prerogative.
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The main burden borne by the peasantry remained that of the State and the landed nobility.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Minna was with us and the local gentry were kind.
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More valuable, and usually more visible, were the regional gentry attracted to the duke's service.
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Nearly two-thirds of the town's 36 property qualifications were owned by a Warwickshire gentry family, the Goughs of Edgbaston.
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Nor did he have to worry for long about hostility on the part of the gentry .
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Other local gentry families were less fortunate in overcoming the crisis produced by some of their members.
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Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.
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The Nottingham bank attracted the business of neighbouring nobility and gentry as well as that of local hosiery manufacturers and traders.