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gentry mort (plural gentry morts)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A gentlewoman; a lady.
    • 1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit:
      No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.
    • 2006, Sally Watson, The Outrageous Oriel:
      Chastity sighed in profound relief. To know a gentry mort like this was the most wondrous event of her life, and she craved her approval more than she did God's.
    • 2015, Sabrina Jeffries, The Art of Sinning:
      You said I wasn't to use cant around a gentry mort, and here she's using it more than me.
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