gentrice (jentris)

[ I am ane that kens full well that ye may wear good claithes, and have a saft hand, and yet that may come of idlene as weel as gentrice . Scott, Red gauntlet, letter xi. 2t. Same as gentry , 2. This Iesus of hus gentrise shal Iouste in Peers armes. Piers Plowman (C), xxi. 21.