or gentry-ken, subs. phr. (old cant).—A gentleman’s house.
1567. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors (1814), p. 65. A GENTRY COFE’S KEN, a noble or gentleman’s house. A GENTRY COFE, a noble or gentle man.
1610. ROWLANDS, Martin Mark-all, p. 38 [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874]. GENTRY COVE’S KEN, a gentleman’s house.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
