Though not rich, he was what would be called an educated southern gentleman.
The brand is based on dressing the part of, or like a, preppy southern gentleman.
A few years since, a young southern gentleman was in Cincinnati, with a favorite servant, who had been his personal attendant from a boy.
Hey, call me the last of the southern gentlemen.
A true southern gentleman, this hunky bachelor is quite the ladies man.
He had come south, to the home of a southern gentleman, to try to drag her back to justice.
Playing the role of the southern gentleman, he insisted on walking her to the station.
Gender equality or not, she decided, he was southern gentleman through and through.
"I suppose I should act the part of the southern gentleman and invite you in."
He was a classic figure from an earlier century, an old-fashioned southern gentleman.