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Meanings of grandee in English
Official aristocratic title conferred on some Spanish and Portuguese nobility.
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Usage of grandee in English
1
Really this grandee of Spain seems particularly small in his grandeur to-day.
2
He hooks up with a local grandee, a former convict, Sam Flusky.
3
We went there because it was really the grandee among Paris hotels.
4
Ramon hurried with a stiffness of immense respect towards the ancient grandee.
5
The grandee's well-known mansion on the English Quay glittered with innumerable lights.
6
And what a woman wishes, a grandee of Spain willed, it appeared.
7
To all appearances, on another one of the Hakim grandee's shopping sprees.
8
You'd rather live here and be a grandee-butyou can't do it.
9
I thought one was sure of a pension from a Russian grandee!
10
Despite his title of grandee of Spain he, too, was hatless before Olivares.
11
And your cousin, the grandee, was mixed up in that, too.
12
Sire, I came hither neither as a grandee nor a knight.
13
I come like a grandee, bearing my company in a litter.
14
Announce Arsène Lupin, grandee of Spain, his most Catholic Majesty's cousin.
15
He will be falling in love with some grandee next, mark my words!
16
However Arsenal chairman and Conservative Party grandee Sir Henry Norris set about pulling strings.
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Translations for grandee
Russian
Portuguese
Catalan
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