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The Chief Justice was of that good old type, at sight of which the word gentil-homme springs naturally to one's lips He was small in figure, but his features were clearly cut, and the falling of the cheeks and deepening of lines produced by approach of age, had but imparted to them an increased, repose.

The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

One teacher runs through a list of pupils with a new member of staff and says for each one: 'gentil' or 'pas gentil' ( 'nice' or 'not nice').

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One teacher runs through a list of pupils with a new member of staff and says for each one: 'gentil' or 'pas gentil' ( 'nice' or 'not nice').

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Chaucer once wrote “He was a very parfait gentil knight, who never yet no villanie ne said unto no manner wight.”

“Irregardless” has a posse « Motivated Grammar 2009

I'd resolved to keep mum, but suddenly the chance to play parfit gentil Flashy seemed sound policy.

Watershed 2010

References: Si tu n'as rien de gentil à dire, ne dis rien = If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all; une étiquette (f) = label; Cabanon dans les Vignes = Cottage in the Vines; une abeille (f) = bee; Sarment Sous La Lune = Vine shoot Beneath the Moon; mais non, chérie = no, dear; la colère (f) = anger; un appel (m) = appeal

etiquette - French Word-A-Day 2007

When I saw the initial prototype (and the bright and hopeful look on my husband's face) I held my tongue, remembering the old adage "Si tu n'as rien de gentil à dire, ne dis rien."

etiquette - French Word-A-Day 2007

Et ben moi jetrouve qu'ils sont très beaux ensemble et que Véronica Mérite d'être heureuse avec un gentil garçon tel que Piz.

The End of Veronica and Logan? | the TV addict 2007

Do not listen to it if you blow a gasket whenever somebody suggests that Obama is something less than the "parfit gentil knight".

Another GOP Oil-Drilling Myth Is Born! 2009

I very much doubt that someone with such rocking green credentials and such a gentlemanly and gentil manner would be genuinely corrupt.

OPEN THREAD 2009