patricians

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

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

Finally understanding whom he’s writing for, Zeno is able to let go of the notion that he’s creating art for an abstract audience of patricians.

But, one by one, the patricians and the pashas died, and downtown Cairo’s aristocratic gloss gave way to quick-pulsed grit as the buildings descended into neglect.

And more recently than that, boiled eggs are thought to have cropped up in Ancient Rome, where wealthy patricians served them as an appetizer course called gustatio.