gentlewomanlike
Definitions
adj
Characteristic of a gentlewoman; having the qualities of a gentlewoman.
She is good-looking, civil, and gentlewomanlike.
His wife, who was a coarse, vulgar woman, in the meantime died, and he afterwards married the daughter of an innkeeper , who proved as gentlewomanlike as the other had been the reverse, and who is very pretty besides.
adv
In a manner befitting a gentlewoman.
For you shall have some, yea many thousands, that live uppon nothing els, and yet go clothed gentlewomanlike both in their silks, and otherwyse, with their fingers clogged with rings, their wrists with bracelets and jewels, and their purses full of gold and silver.
To clarify the spirit in which he undertakes the repayment of his loan, Mountford dresses himself "gentlemanlike" and requires Susan to dress "gentlewomanlike."