Friends and Gentlemen

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Gentlemen and friends are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Gentlemen" instead a noun "Friends".

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Friends and gentlemen are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Friends" instead a noun "Gentlemen".

In Nicholas Nickleby, when Ralph has dinner with his friends and Kate, there is a line like "Poor old Kate, surrounded by gentlemen and wondering why no one's making love to her."

Source: Have A Gay Old Time / Literature
The Gentlemen Bastards have a similar custom of "a glass poured to air" for absent or dead friends.

Source: Libation for the Dead
Someone guesses that he went there to collect friends to bring to the ball, and this rapidly turns into a rumour that he's going to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen.

Source: Literature / Pride and Prejudice

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