aristocrat

Born in 1757, the Marquis de La Fayette was a French aristocrat and a democratic revolution’s most unlikely hero.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

There were hair-metal bands that only had power ballads — Firehouse or some band with 17th century French aristocrat hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

When Alice Lockey, a well-read lady’s maid to an aristocrat, meets the bookish Charlie, a valet, the match seems meant to be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

And her transition to her next comedy hit To the Manor Born, playing true-blue aristocrat Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, felt seamless.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

The reason for this was that he worked for an aristocrat, Prince Esterhazy, at his private houses.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Among them was the academy’s annual summer party, themed after 18th-century Georgian pleasure gardens — Britain’s oil-lamp-lit outdoor venues where aristocrats, the newly rich and everyday revelers gathered to see, be seen and behave badly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

An otherwise urban-dwelling sophisticate, he cultivated a rustic demeanor for France’s benefit, uncharacteristically donning a coonskin hat and simple clothes to impress cosseted aristocrats and ordinary Parisians alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

But the dividend aristocrats managed to beat the wider index, as long as those steady divis were reinvested—something an ordinary investor can do automatically by updating the settings in their brokerage account.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Dividend aristocrats are supposed to be conservative blue chips.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

Many aristocrats and wealthy merchants themselves played viols at home, too, sometimes combined in a duet with a plucked lute.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall