aristocracy
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Indian royals were major patrons of polo, and polo tournaments offered a rare meeting ground for Indian aristocracy and the British colonial elite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Dior designer Jonathan Anderson delivered his vision Wednesday of "today's aristocracy" in his second menswear show for the brand in Paris, mixing new gender-mixed creations with house symbols.
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
But “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is less concerned about the aristocracy than what life is like for smallfolk like Dunk, an orphan who spent his early childhood scraping by in Flea Bottom.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
It was popular with the British aristocracy and celebrities in the 1960s and 1970s.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
The North has those huge bloody cities and a thousand religions, and the only aristocracy is the aristocracy of wealth.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
From this combination a meritocracy emerged, supplanting aristocracies in lands where feudalism had been weakened by progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
Representative government likely has deeper roots than monarchies or aristocracies.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
As Wooldridge says, Enlightenment thinkers, aiming to match “talent to opportunity and knowledge to power,” stressed the difference between natural aristocracies of talents and artificial aristocracies of breeding and inheritance.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
In the Adams formulation, aristocracies were to society as the passions were to the individual personality, permanent fixtures susceptible to disciplined containment and artful channeling, but never altogether removable.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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