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Rising confusion about old foreign gentlemen (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

signori

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'foreign gentlemen' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'rising confusion about old' is the wordplay.
'confusion' is an anagram indicator.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'old' becomes 'o' (abbreviation as in OT - Old Testament).
'rising' is an anagram of 'signri'.
'signri' going around 'o' is 'SIGNORI'.

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(Other definitions for signori that I've seen before include "Italian gents" , "Italians" , "Italian men" , "men of Roman stamp?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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