gentle womanliness (jentlwum"an lines)

The state or qua quality of being being gentlewomanly; disposition and deportment becoming a gentlewoman. [Rare.] She had a quantity of chestnut hair, a good figure, a dazzling complexion, and a certain languid grace which pa ed easily for gentle womanline . Bret Harte, Argonauts, p. 59. gentlewomanly (jen'tl-wum"an-li), a. Becoming a gentlewoman; ladylike." [Rare.] gently (jen'tli), adv . [ gentle + -ly2.] 1. As one of good family or condition. A city clerk, but gently born and bred. Tennyson, Sea Dreams. The original Language of this Countrey (or at least the earliest we know of) is the Bengala or Gentoo . James Rennell, Letter, 1767. ( Yule and Burnell .) gentoo2 (jen-tö'), n. A kind of penguin, the Pygoscelis tæniata . It is better known as the Papuan penguin, but is not found on the Papuan islands, being a native of the Falklands. See Pygoscelis. gentret, n. A Middle English form of gentry . Chaucer.