aristocratic
Example Sentences
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That’s what the fashion historian James Laver named the period during and immediately following the French Revolution, which made wearing aristocratic fripperies both dangerous and passé.
“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.
But in a Britain that is more racially diverse, more open to questions about gender identity and economic inequality, and increasingly rejecting the aristocratic legacy of a white-dominated empire, Eton, too, is changing.
From New York Times
They "brought with them their aristocratic ways and indentured servants," Turchin writes, although the latter were "soon replaced by imported Africans," with enormous historical consequences.
From Salon
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