An overly politically correct, awkward variation of "lady." Ironically, it is often used on the floors of Congress.
Will the gentlewoman from New Yorkplease speak before the Senate? Please allow the congresswoman to explain why "the lady from New York" isn't polite and respectful.
An amazing sophisticated mid aged woman who thinks being called a girlfriend is a teenage/childish gesture. A modern day lady to who a man loves and cares for even when she picks on him all the time cause if his oversized clothing.
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe. - John Walter Wayland