Adjective(1) befitting a person of noble origin(2) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy(3) of the hereditary aristocracy or ruling class of ancient Rome or medieval Europe(4) of honorary nobility in the Byzantine empire(5) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility oraristocracy(6) upper
Noun(1) a person of refined upbringing and manners,a member of the aristocracy,person born to upper class(2) a person of refined upbringing and manners(3) a member of the aristocracy(4) person born to upper class
Adjective(1) befitting a person of noble origin(2) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy(3) of the hereditary aristocracy or ruling class of ancient Rome or medieval Europe(4) of honorary nobility in the Byzantine empire(5) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility oraristocracy(6) upper
Noun(1) a person of refined upbringing and manners,a member of the aristocracy,person born to upper class(2) a person of refined upbringing and manners(3) a member of the aristocracy(4) person born to upper class
(1) These are studies of sunlight on the shimmering white summer dresses worn by patrician women and children around the turn of the twentieth century.(2) She became the idol of patrician society of Rome.(3) He has tried to break his image as a cold patrician from New England.(4) A Roman patrician 's pride and joy was his vegetables.(5) We see he's not a god or an angel, but an ordinary man - a handsome, patrician Englishman to be sure, but mortal.(6) And her patrician demeanour bespeaks her standing in the sport over which she has reigned supreme for a period spanning three Olympics.(7) We may remember that at about the same time over 70 per cent of patrician women in Venice were nuns.(8) Dressed in a well-cut navy blazer, cashmere turtleneck and charcoal trousers, he cuts a patrician figure as he orders a pot of tea in the Merrion hotel.(9) Rising dowries also impinged on patrician men, forcing almost half of them to remain unmarried during the fifteenth century.(10) As industrial employment declined, the luxury of patrician landowners living from landed income maintained the demand for urban services.(11) New Englanders despised New Yorkers who reciprocated the sentiment, and neither felt much affinity for the patrician Virginians or the farmers of the Carolinas and Georgia.(12) Venetian patrician society not only tolerated but flaunted courtesans, who star in some of the best Venetian paintings.(13) Mary, smiling, reads a prayer-book, akin to the one she appears in, with patrician composure.(14) In the 1860s a few patrician merchants' wives subscribed independently on guarantee lists of the German opera.(15) A Roman woman of patrician dress and bearing stood in the doorway, accompanied by two soldiers draped in civilian clothes.(16) To become consul, Coriolanus has to gain the support of both the patrician senate and the Roman people.
