highborn
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When he comes upon Irontown, led by the highborn Lady Eboshi, and listens to its people brag about burning down the boar god’s forest, one might expect him to be angry.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
A highborn Athenian named Thucydides recognized at once that a transformative conflict was beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Ships, especially warships, were microcosms of society at large, filled with young boys and teenagers and old men, the uneducated and the highborn, all speaking a particular language.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2023
Francesca Muscolino, the 16-year-old daughter of Neapolitan immigrants, is no highborn Chekhovian sophisticate.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2017
She was clad all in black, from head to heel, and wore no gold nor gems, but she was highborn, that was plain to see.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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