gentlesir

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noun

A polite form of address for a man.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

noungentlesir (plural gentlesirs)

plural gentlesirs

  1. humorousnonstandardA polite form of address for a man.

    Gentlesirs, this beef is from your own planet, prepared according to an Old Earth recipe.

    2011, Fred Patten, Furry: The Best Anthropomorphic Fiction Ever, page 339
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    Gentlesirs, what think you? You have just seen forty-five (untranslatable noun) representing all the continents of the several worlds of the United Systems of Briamos.

    1978, Alan Dean Foster, Star Trek Log Ten, page 204

    "Gentlesirs, gentlesirs," the Tersept of Sart said in swift and slightly overloud soothing, "let our brawl be where it truly lies, with the so-called Risen King, and not with each other.

    2007, Ed Greenwood, The Vacant Throne, page 64

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