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

Nehru and John Kennedy, both patricians, met in 1961 and quickly warmed to each other.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

Beneath this group were the equestrians: families who did not have the ancient lineages of the patricians and who normally did not serve in public office.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

These patricians created a body of restless opposition in the Grand Council, agitated the bourgeoisie and proletariate with the expectation of impending changes, and succeeded in effecting some salutary but superficial reforms.

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