aristocratic
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To the book’s heartsick narrator, Louise Brown, the man who embodies those old-fashioned virtues is Claude Collier, the 27-year-old layabout scion of an aristocratic New Orleans clan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Severus’ family was wealthy and aristocratic: They could afford to educate him expensively and expected him to pursue a career in public life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
It's believed that he was not only aristocratic but that he had royal lineage.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
Born in 1942 to an aristocratic British family in Dorset, England, Douglas-Hamilton studied biology and zoology in Scotland and Oxford before moving to Tanzania to research elephant social behaviour.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025
It was not big nor red, like poor ‘Petrea’s’, it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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