patricians

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He’s one of those sci-fi characters whose normal Earthman name distinguishes him as a plebe among patricians.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2024

Versatile and assured, Sternhagen played women who were folksy, regal, plain-spoken and glamorous, although she had a special fondness for dotty eccentrics and snobby patricians.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Those who dominated trade and claimed descent from the Middle East were known as patricians.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The patricians were the aristocratic elite, who alone could hold public office and sit in the Senate.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

His birth made him the companion of patricians.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo