patriciate
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He has nowhere written that territorial riches were the exclusive appanage of the patriciate.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson
Among the districts of Italy some have and some have not a patriciate.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The seventh, or future one, was the patriciate.
From The Last Reformation by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith
Gilbert Osmond had a high appreciation of this particular patriciate; not so much for its distinction, which he thought easily surpassable, as for its solid actuality.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James
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