gentleman-commoner
[ jen-tl-muhn-kom-uh-ner ]
noun,plural gen·tle·men-com·mon·ers.
(formerly) a member of a class of commoners enjoying special privileges at Oxford University.
Origin of gentleman-commoner
1First recorded in 1680–90
Words Nearby gentleman-commoner
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How to use gentleman-commoner in a sentence
Gibbon was a gentleman commoner, and was permitted by the easy discipline of Magdalen to behave just as he pleased.
Oxford | Andrew LangA gentleman commoner of Queen's was president of a 'hellfire club,' and brutal horseplay was still practised upon the weaker lads.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. | Leslie StephenThe next ten years passed in a round of gaiety which took the form of courtship by no one under the rank of gentleman commoner.
Rowlandson's Oxford | A. Hamilton GibbsBraburn, a gentleman commoner of Lincoln college, gave a silver arrow to be shot for by the archers of the university of Oxford.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume III (of 3) | Thomas PercyHe was a commoner of Trinity Colledge in Oxford.
Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2) | John Aubrey
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