grandee

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Don Alba, a descendant of the famous Grandee family of Spain, entered politics a year before the War.

From Time Magazine Archive

The building dated from 1200 and had been the home of many a Grandee.

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Debutantes from the U. S. who have wintered in Madrid know Alba as the gay Grandee who owns the flock of brown dachshunds.

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Sitting in the locomotive cab, his hand on the throttle, was the Duke of Saragossa, Grandee of Spain, whose hereditary right it is to drive the locomotive of the Queen's train.

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The proud Grandee was fully overwhelmed by the secret that he thought he had discovered.

From The Grandee by Palacio Valdés, Armando