patriciate
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The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Lady Barb verily appeared to have for the representative of the American patriciate a mysterious fascination.
From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by Henry James
The oligarchical rule was so severe, that a patrician marrying a woman of the lower class forfeited his right to participate in the government, and deprived his offspring of the patriciate.
From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni
Gilbert Osmond had a high appreciation of this particular patriciate; not so much for its distinction, which he thought easily surpassable, as for its solid actuality.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James
Upon the breaking down of the aristocracy of birth, the patriciate, the senate was made accessible to the plebeians who had filled the curule magistracies and were possessed of 800,000 sesterces.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson
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