patrician

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Diarmuid McGurk is from the Patrician Hall in Carrickmore, and earlier this week he gave me a tour of St Columbkille Church in Carrickmore.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2024

Hoops is currently building a resort in his home state of West Virginia, called the Grand Patrician, named after his wife, Patricia.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2019

On Tuesday afternoon, 506 candidates from 67 countries were sworn in as U.S. citizens at the Fourth of July Naturalization Ceremony at the Seattle Center, said Patrician Ryan, public affairs officer with U.S.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 4, 2017

Patrician status was inherited, and plebians made up the rest of society.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2016

He is descended of an ancient Patrician Family of Francfort, and professes the Lutheran Religion.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von