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

Those who dominated trade and claimed descent from the Middle East were known as patricians.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

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

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The exarch was a governor general, to whom the dukes, prefects or patricians, and also the governors of particular territories or cities, were subordinate.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois