1) English gentry family 2) VIPs ashore
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Landed gentry is a largely historical privileged British social class, consisting of land owners who could live entirely off rental income. Often they worked only in an administrative capacity, in the management of their own lands, or in such professions as politics and the armed forces. The decline of the class largely stemmed from the 1870s agri...
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[China] The term `landed gentry,` or `gentry,` originally used for Britain, does not correspond to any single term in Chinese. One standard work remarks that under the Ming dynasty, the elite who held privileged status through passing the Imperial exams were called shenshi 紳士 or jinshen 縉紳. These degree-holders, literati, scholar-bu...
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(from the article `land reform`) ...is to abolish feudalism, which usually means overthrowing the landlord class and transferring its powers to the reforming elite or its surrogates. ...
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n] - the gentry who own land (considered as a class)
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squirearchy noun the gentry who own land (considered as a class)
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