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southern gentleman. This term for a courtly, well-bred southerner dates back at least to the late 18th century. Clare Booth Luce, in Kiss the Boys Goodbye, offered this definition: “If you can shoot like a South Carolinian, ride like a Virginian, make love like a Georgian, and be proud of it like an Episcopa lian, you’re a Southern gentleman.” But an anonymous infidel Yankee defined the chivalrous species as “one who rises to his feet when his wife comes in bearing the firewood.” |