aristocrat
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The French aristocrat who had joined the American revolutionary cause visited the U.S. in 1824.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Golden retrievers were bred by aristocrat Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, who wanted a gun dog suited to Scottish Highland terrain.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
A small part of the problem is that the dividend aristocrat index is equal-weighted, but it has done terribly even compared with the equal-weighted S&P, which is itself lagging behind the normal, market-value-weighted index.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
I curtsy and give him my hand like some pretentious aristocrat, which makes him laugh.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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A medieval rival to Venice and a financial capital of early modern Europe, this northwest Italian harbor city was a must-stop for 18th-century aristocrats on continental Europe’s Grand Tour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
They and other actors and aristocrats were visitors to the Scarborough Tunny Club, founded in the 1930s and which survives today as a fish and chip restaurant.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
One of the stock market’s most exclusive clubs—the so-called dividend aristocrats —looks poised to get a new member.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
As Chicago moved into the twentieth century, the golden days for Joyce and the other butcher aristocrats were over.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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