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'''Gentle''' is a gender |
'''Gentle''' is a gender-neutral term to refer to either a '''gentleman''' or a '''gentlewoman'''; that is to say, one of gentle [[birth]], not of [[noble]] birth but neither of common birth. |
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This is almost certainly a modern backformation, since the idea of gender-neutral [[language]] is not a particularly [[medieval]] one. |
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