noblesse

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So her couture went to the Association d’Entraide de la Noblesse Française, an organization that supported impecunious aristocrats.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2015

Noblesse oblige does not mean that the elite have special privileges.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2014

Noblesse des Tess, ridden by Kamal Bahamdan, was previously the ride of Colombia's Rene Lopez.

From Reuters • Aug. 7, 2012

Paddy Prendergast won the equivalent of the Racing Post Trophy twice in three years in the early 1960s, first with the brilliant filly Noblesse in 1962 and then with Hardicanute in 1964.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2010

There is no country in Europe where Universities hold so exalted a position, and where those who have the honour to belong to them may say with greater truth, Noblesse oblige.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various