gentilesse

noun

1. Courtesy, refinement; gentleness.

   literary

   […] nor loved he less / Stately lords in palaces, / Princely women hard to please, / Fenced by form and ceremony, / Decked by courtly rites and dress / And etiquette of gentilesse.

Where it comes from

From Middle English gentilesse, from Old French gentilesce.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry gentilesse (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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