{"id":35751,"count":2,"description":"Gentry (origin Old French genterie, from gentil, \"high-born, noble\") denotes \"well-born and well-bred people\" of high social class, especially in the past.\nGentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates (see Manorialism), including various ranks of nobility, clerical upper crust and \"gentle\" families of long descent who never obtained official right to bear a coat of arms.\nIn England, the term often refers to the social class of the landed aristocracy or to the minor aristocracy (see landed gentry) whose income derives from their large landholdings and thus designates the more narrow definition. The idea of gentry in the continental sense of \"noblesse\" is extinct in England, despite the efforts of enthusiasts to revive it (see A.C. Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, Edinburgh, 1895; The Right to Bear Arms, 1900). Though the untitled nobility in England are normally termed gentry the older sense of \"nobility\" is that of a quality...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/gentry\/","name":"Gentry","slug":"gentry","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/35751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=35751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}