aristocrat

Example Sentences

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Rotting turnips could feed animals and make great compost, but this didn't exactly endear them to aristocrats.

From Salon

Why conflate early Renaissance aristocrats with early 20th century bootleggers?

From Los Angeles Times

A valet is in some ways a vestige of an earlier era, when aristocrats and other powerful men employed a personal servant to help them dress each day.

From Washington Post

In the 40 years since, she has become internationally renowned for vivid portraits of her intimates — as well as European aristocrats and celebrities — all framed within their own rarefied milieus.

From New York Times

“The Villa” is a moody labyrinth of a novel fortified by Hawkins’s evident knowledge of Gothic conventions: missing manuscripts, debauched aristocrats, isolated locales and the like.

From Washington Post