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well-born
adjective as in aristocratic
adjective as in blue-blooded
adjective as in gentle
adjective as in polished
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Example Sentences
He has the public persona of a well-born man who has upon occasion been a tourist among the disadvantaged.
For yourselves, O well-born Maruts, the vigorous among you shake the stone for distilling Soma.
He was as well-born as they were, and had been better off until Xenie had married the old millionaire.
And the estates—a little involved, doubtless, like those of most well-born folk in these ill days?
Let her not be poor, how generous (well-born) soever; for a man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
I replied that I was a gentleman, I trusted as well educated, and I knew as well-born, as himself.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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