patricians
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He’s one of those sci-fi characters whose normal Earthman name distinguishes him as a plebe among patricians.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2024
Versatile and assured, Sternhagen played women who were folksy, regal, plain-spoken and glamorous, although she had a special fondness for dotty eccentrics and snobby patricians.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023
Both plebeians and patricians could attend this assembly, which was organized into blocs.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Those who dominated trade and claimed descent from the Middle East were known as patricians.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The Cittadini formed a class of burgher aristocracy, ranking below the patricians and taking no part in the actual government of the State, since they did not vote in the Consiglio Grande.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
