[ noun ] people of good family and breeding and high social status <noun.group>
Gentlefolk \Gen"tle*folk`\, Gentlefolks \Gen"tle*folks`\, n. pl. Persons of gentle or good family and breeding. [Generally in the United States in the plural form.] --Shak.
One from a former Guy's Hospital nurse in the remote southwest county of Cornwall offered "accommodation to gentlefolk, adults or children.