demi-gentility

Updated: May 9, 2025

You see before you, then, this slatternly figure, slipshod, half- clothed, with a sort of shabby demi-gentility about it, half ragamuffin, half clerk; while in strong contrast appeared the new-comer, scrupulously neat, new, with bright black-satin stock, coat cut jauntily to the waist, varnished boots, kid gloves, and trim mustache.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Lucretia — Volume 04

You see before you, then, this slatternly figure, slipshod, half-clothed, with a sort of shabby demi-gentility about it, half ragamuffin, half clerk; while in strong contrast appeared the new-comer, scrupulously neat, new, with bright black-satin stock, coat cut jauntily to the waist, varnished boots, kid gloves, and trim mustache.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Lucretia — Complete