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patrician

[puh-trish-uhn] / pəˈtrɪʃ ən /




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For many Americans, the nationally televised hearing was the first close look at the patrician, grey-haired former FBI director.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

That’s how Hollywood has seen him: patrician, elegant.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024

Most of the things on the 112-item list cost less than $100 and fulfill a proletarian need instead of gesturing toward patrician signaling.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023

And she saw Lord Nugent in a new light too: under that patrician charm and friendliness, he was ruthless.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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