A businessman working in the financial district of the City of London.
〈英,非正式〉(尤指在伦敦城金融区经营的)商人
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They were city gents and people found them patronising.
It came in casually and became more and more formal with the dark suit, becoming the uniform of the city gent.
There is one particularly striking image of a city gent walking with the Bank of England on one side and a coalman on the other, lifting a bag of coal from his truck.
He was could have passed for a city gent: clean cut, camel coat, a product of his times.
Like a city gent affecting country ways, the Tory leader rolled up in a light-green jumper with tie barely showing.