patricians

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He’s one of those sci-fi characters whose normal Earthman name distinguishes him as a plebe among patricians.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2024

Versatile and assured, Sternhagen played women who were folksy, regal, plain-spoken and glamorous, although she had a special fondness for dotty eccentrics and snobby patricians.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

A council of other patricians often served as advisors or sometimes simply ran the town without a sultan.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Nehru and John Kennedy, both patricians, met in 1961 and quickly warmed to each other.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

Meanwhile, the old machinery of the constitution had fallen into the hands of a close oligarchy or commission of a few powerful patricians.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo