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aristocrat

[uh-ris-tuh-krat, ar-uh-stuh-] / əˈrɪs təˌkræt, ˈær ə stə- /


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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

Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat who spent months traveling through the U.S. in the early 19th century, was impressed by the tendency of Americans to form associations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Depicting the singer as a Baroque aristocrat clad in contemporary designer fashion, the portrait helped propel González onto an international stage.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

The buyback aristocrat strategy showed a hypothetical 14.5% annual return over 10 years, with only 13% tech weighting.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

The young aristocrat and his friend Gustave de Beaumont had been dispatched by their government in 1831 with the specific mission of examining America’s rumored-to-be-innovative prisons.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Meghan Kobza’s “The Masquerade” unmasks the festivities of 18th-century London, where the commercial “middling sort” acquired the numbers and money to emulate the private entertainments of kings and aristocrats.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

The book is about colonisation and devastation, set against a backdrop of families left to die of starvation on estates owned by British aristocrats and landowners.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Making and remaking the common culture that bound together clergymen, mathematicians, instrument makers and aristocrats such as James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, and George Parker, second Earl of Macclesfield, required constant effort.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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