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Meanings of patrician in English
The name given to members of the old-established upper class in ancient Rome as well as in the Middle Ages.
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Examples for "aristocrat"
Examples for "aristocrat"
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Resolutely formal and courtly: the very model of the traditional Adwami aristocrat.
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The true aristocrat is known rather than knows; he makes and serves.
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The newcomer came forward with the quiet assurance of the born aristocrat.
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The aristocrat lived on the land and led his men into battle.
5
In 'The New Heloise' it is the lady who is the aristocrat.
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He is a hidalgo of blue blood in pride, pompousness and poverty.
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Only blue blood could afford such a liberal, such an understanding attitude.
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She was everything that blue blood ought to be-andso rarely is.
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Despite his Italian ancestry, Edo is very much an English blue blood.
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Then pillars of fire rose; dark blue blood gouted up in fountains.
Post-Roman European social class; a formally defined class of governing upper classes found in metropolitan areas (Venice, Florence, Genoa, Amalfi) and Free cities of Germany (Nuremberg, Ravensburg, Augsburg, Konstanz, Lindau, Bern, Basel, Zurich)
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Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy.
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Usage of patrician in English
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His rich brown hair lay in heavy locks; the features were patrician.
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Instead, we lend our patrician support to HIV crises in other countries.
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A laugh frigidly jeering; a look lazily mutinous; gentlemanlike irony, patrician resentment.
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And Lawrence came to her in the mantle of these patrician ghosts.
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There was something affecting in the proud woe of this grand patrician.
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He could hear the concern in her voice, underneath the patrician professionalism.
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He was not a patrician, according to the ideas of rich planters.
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The tiny flame lit up for an instant the languid patrician features.
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He created a plebeian aristocracy and blended it with the patrician oligarchy.
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What had the patrician Jakob Schreevogl told him earlier about the meeting?
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She blended the taste of an artist with that of a patrician.
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Soon the religion of Judea had become a topic of patrician Rome.
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His delicate, patrician features emphasized the mystery of his personality and action.
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Like the true patrician that he was, he studied restraint and reserve.
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Seeing that conviction was certain, the proud patrician avoided humiliation by suicide.
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That illustrious patrician is released from his cherished and well acquitted duties.
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United Kingdom
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