Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. 2. (n.) A woman who attends a lady of high rank.

Multi-Version Concordance Gentlewoman (1 Occurrence) Acts 17:34 A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among them being Dionysius a member of the Council, a gentlewoman named Damaris, and some others. (WEY)