aristocrat

The zeppelin design, which placed individual gas-filled containers within a rigidly framed outer envelope, was invented around the turn of the 20th century by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a German aristocrat and general.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

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

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

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

Last year was truly miserable: The S&P made almost 18%, including divis, while the dividend aristocrats made 7.2%—less than the total return on a 10-year Treasury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Many parts of the butchering process did not require the skill of JohnnyJoyce and the other butcher aristocrats.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield