Rising confusion about old foreign gentlemen (7)
I believe the answer is:
signori
'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'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for signori that I've seen before include "Italian gents" , "Italians" , "Italian men" , "men of Roman stamp?" .)