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aristocratic

adjective as in privileged, elegant

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“Under our ownership, the Daily Telegraph will become a global brand, just as the Daily Mail has,” said Chairman Jonathan Harmsworth, who is also known by his aristocratic title Viscount Rothermere.

Tempering democratic rhetoric with aristocratic restraint, he rises above the divisions of debate to deliver the funeral oration when Athens buries its dead sons in the war’s first winter.

Mr. Schlossberg’s campaign displays aristocratic pretensions that fit uneasily into this new politics.

He quotes an aristocratic press attaché for Franco’s Civil War forces telling an American reporter that the conflict was “a race war, not merely a class war”:

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In 2004 she published her memoirs Annabel: An Unconventional Life, where she recalled her aristocratic childhood, glamorous social life in 1960s Swinging London to her role as matriarch and grandmother.

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