The students were meant to be young gentlemen, that is, from respectable and important families.
Home ownership is considered the mark of a "respectable" family.
This made them feel that her works were safe for respectable Victorian families to read.
He came from a respectable family who attempted to give him a college education.
Once upon a time there were two sisters from a respectable white family.
Mother was of a poor class but a respectable family in Plymouth.
As a result the street acquired a bad reputation and respectable families moved out.
He made new friends, not street thugs but kids from respectable families.
We were a very respectable family and I was the second child.
The first of his respectable rural family to sit in the Senate.