gentleman-pensioner

[ jen-tl-muhn-pen-shuh-ner ]

noun

, plural gen·tle·men-pen·sion·ers.

1. (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gentleman-pensioner¹

First recorded in 1620–30

Example Sentences

Percy, whose office as a gentleman-pensioner gave him the best opportunities of hearing court-whispers and secrets, informed them it was rumoured that the Earl of Salisbury had obtained a clue to some Catholic plot, whether their own he could not say; but it would seem from all that could be gathered, that his endeavours to trace it out had been frustrated.

From Project Gutenberg

Having gained admittance by a gate set in the wall, the three found awaiting them, Sir Thomas, my Lord of Rookwood, the Gentleman-Pensioner and a surgeon summoned by the latter to look to the welfare of the challenger.

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The garden of the official dwelling occupied by the Gentleman-Pensioner consisted of perhaps a quarter of an acre of sward, fringed by a sorry row of leafless trees, and surrounded by a high wall, beyond the top of which shone the metal gables of half a score of straight-backed dwellings.

From Project Gutenberg

Toward the decline of the tenth day following the meeting of Viscount Effingston and Sir Thomas Winter in the garden of the Gentleman-Pensioner, four men might have been seen riding through one of the stretches of woodland used by the King as a hunting ground and known as the forest of Waltham.

From Project Gutenberg

"Upon a simple solution of the matter," replied the Gentleman-Pensioner.

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