Meanings of old noblesse in English

A touch of the old noblesse about it, I fancy.

And, after all, neither Monsieur nor Madame de Rambouillet were of the old noblesse.

She belonged to the old noblesse, and her family wished her to make a great marriage.

The Jesuits were indicted before the law-courts by Montlosier, himself a Royalist and a member of the old noblesse.

In 1829 the old noblesse had recovered as to manners and customs something of the prestige it had irrevocably lost in politics.

It comprises some of the most ancient of that old noblesse to which the ouvriers in the great Revolution were so remorseless.

They will be charmed to welcome you a convert from the old noblesse is a guarantee of stability to the new system.

This self-suppression, and also the concealment of pain are two of the old noblesse oblige characteristics which are now little more than a tradition.

Small wonder then that the women of the " old noblesse," as I may call them, were outspokenly bitter in their comments upon her.

"Ah," said he, with his quiet smile, "it is the old noblesse oblige.

'I fear, Comrade Jackson,' he said, 'that the old noblesse oblige traditions of the Psmiths would not allow me to do that.