ultragenteel
English
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editultragenteel (comparative more ultragenteel, superlative most ultragenteel)
- (informal) Very genteel.
- 2009 June 17, Alastair Macaulay, “When an Earthbound Lad Meets His Winged Sylph”, in New York Times[1]:
- I am relieved that Effie and her fellow Scotswomen do not wear kilts (the mistake made by the majority of today’s “Sylphide” productions), but their empire-line dresses seem to have been purchased in Jane Austen’s Bath, suggesting that this Scottish farmstead houses many more ultragenteel young ladies than we can really credit.