Members of the Spanish and Portuguese nobility; a nobleman without a hereditary title.
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Examples for "hidalgo "
Examples for "hidalgo "
1 It is a room fit for an hidalgo of the first order.
2 He is a hidalgo of blue blood in pride, pompousness and poverty.
3 There was no doubting the word of so grave and ceremonious a hidalgo .
4 The hidalgo excused his weakness on the score of fatigue and the heat.
5 With no look for Rodriguez she bent over the stricken hidalgo .
1 Bahia de Todo os Santos was, with its adjacent territory, given to Francisco Pereira Coutinho, a fidalgo who had made himself a name in India.
2 Vexatious Delays-DrunkenDriver-TheMurdered Mule-The Lamentation-Adventure on the Heath-Fearof Darkness-Portuguese Fidalgo - The Escort-Returnto Lisbon.
3 The longitudes deduced from the accurate observations of Messrs. Churruca, Fidalgo , and Noguera, were not then published.
4 * (* The difference of longitude between the Silla and La Guayra, according to Fidalgo , is 0 degrees 6 minutes 40 seconds.)
1 To avenge that blow, the Hidalga blazed at the Englishman with both her forward guns.
2 Beyond her and now well astern the veil of smoke was rent at last and the Hidalga was revealed in desperate case.
1 Filial on Rua Fidalga is a watering hole popular with journalists.
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