“He has class. ”
“She’s a classy dame.”
Words from movies, when movies had class. Before they were called films. And before that bane of the late 20th century…..
‘TUDE
The thing called ‘tude, or attitude when somebody could be both literate and motivated enough to say the whole word out loud. “Tude” was the death knell of Western civilization. And that, for those who don’t know, is a bad thing.