patrician
Example Sentences
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For many Americans, the nationally televised hearing was the first close look at the patrician, grey-haired former FBI director.
From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026
Now forgotten, Dillon, Read & Co. typified the Wall Street of roll-top desks and patrician dignity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
That’s how Hollywood has seen him: patrician, elegant.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024
Most of the things on the 112-item list cost less than $100 and fulfill a proletarian need instead of gesturing toward patrician signaling.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023
Garzoni was a Jesuit, a Venetian patrician and a scholastic philosopher.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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