gentleman

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in the Hudson's Bay Company, any officer of the rank of assistant clerk or above.

Quotations

1800

In the former part of the day, we overtook several gentlemen . . . on their way to their winter quarters.

1835

[He was] threatening to stab one of the men in revenge, which he no doubt would have done, either to a gentleman or a man. . . .

1955

There were also two lower ranks of Gentlemen . . . clerks and apprentice clerks.