A person of family. One of aristocratic birth. The Latin gens.
“Family will take a person anywhere.”—Waruer: Little Journey in the World, chap. iv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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