An aristocratic family. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In using the term aristocratic literature I have in mind an intellectual rather than a social category. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
Mr. Millbank ever to enter what he called aristocratic society. From Wordnik.com. [Coningsby] Reference
I use the word aristocratic, for want of a better term. From Wordnik.com. [Under Western Eyes] Reference
He looks kind of like a foppish dandy … kind of aristocratic from the waist up. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How much do comic book writers make?] Reference
Mostly, it belonged to the upper middle class but also had certain aristocratic roots. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1989 - Press Release] Reference
He published his first composition at age seven and began performing in aristocratic salons at eight. From Wordnik.com. [Five People Born on March 1 | myFiveBest] Reference
He had certain aristocratic habits, if not much luxury, and the fineness of his linen was one of these. From Wordnik.com. [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference
A monarchy, and surrounds his monarchy with what he calls aristocratic institutions; and you know what becomes of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Funeral of Napoleon] Reference
Anglomania was pretty rife in aristocratic Paris, and the author of my main source (Cornelia Otis Skinner) was an expert on 1890s/1900s Parisian society. From Wordnik.com. [The Tea Gown | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
That was the name aristocratic children gave their fathers, and it meant him alone, because the little girl resembled him and loved him better than she did any one else. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
She had all her old clever way -- Mrs. Wix said it was "aristocratic" -- of changing the subject as she might have slammed the door in your face. From Wordnik.com. [What Maisie Knew] Reference
To be noble is to be aristocratic, that is to say, a ruler. From Wordnik.com. [The Research Magnificent] Reference
Centres of polished barbarism known as aristocratic societies. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
It was what I may call the aristocratic ethic or the master ethic. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Heel] Reference
Hates the amenities, hates what he sneeringly calls aristocratic pretensions. From Wordnik.com. [The Luxembourg Run]
His features were exactly of the type which novelists used to call aristocratic: an aquiline nose. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference
The actual organisation of the whole Order may be described as aristocratic in contrast with the despotism of the Abbot of Cluny. From Wordnik.com. [The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304] Reference
How deep-rooted was the notion of aristocratic control was to be shown when France turned into substantial fact Rousseau's demand for freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham] Reference
He bore himself with that unconscious grace which people are apt to call aristocratic, being apparently never encumbered by any superfluity of arms and legs. From Wordnik.com. [Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories] Reference
The difference between Mr. Bamberger's and our point of view -- which Mr. Lasker may call aristocratic, if he chooses -- appears in his very choice of words. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
The great mass of laborers, however, does not work in such establishments, which I am tempted to call aristocratic -- without wishing to excite any class-hatred. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
Some of their fellow-citizens acquired a power over the rest which might truly have been called aristocratic, if it had been capable of transmission from father to son. From Wordnik.com. [democracy in America, volume 1] Reference
Some of their fellow-citizens acquired a power over the rest which might truly have been called aristocratic, if it had been capable of invariable transmission from father to son. From Wordnik.com. [American Institutions and Their Influence] Reference
These were men of a kind of aristocratic pedigree. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004] Reference
Reviewing "aristocratic" attitude toward the Civil War, Bright said. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
St. Jude's, the most exclusive 'aristocratic' religious establishment in. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Actor Ferdinand Mayne even resembles Lee and has the same kind of aristocratic air as he does. From Wordnik.com. [Frightmare (1983)] Reference
Detroit's dilapidated urban pretenses are no match for the kind of aristocratic vibe that Fiat embodies. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew DeBord: Fiat Says "Buon Giorno!" to Chrysler] Reference
Mr. Holly was "aristocratic," and in hopes Emma would change her mind, Jim supposed; but all danger was over now. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
The "aristocratic" behavior of Kerry and Kennedy which strikes us real Americans as odious, actually appeals to them. From Wordnik.com. [Do you think maybe the problem people are having with Mitt Romney is that he's too...] Reference
And this kind of aristocratic model, where we don't feel any vulnerability, is making us all profoundly unattractive. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Rick Rockwell Talks About His 'Multimillionaire' Marriage - February 29, 2000] Reference
This is what Aristotle understands by an "aristocratic" constitution: literally, the rule of the aristoi, i.e., best persons. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Political Theory] Reference
A power over the rest which might truly have been called aristocratic, if it had been capable of transmission from father to son. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy in America — Volume 1] Reference
It is absolutely fascinating, because it was open in a sense that both family -- kind of aristocratic family circles knew about it. From Wordnik.com. [Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship] Reference
He's part of that first early kind of aristocratic and liberal rather than extreme period of the first years of the French revolution. From Wordnik.com. [A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America] Reference
Council and an "aristocratic" Assembly procured a restriction of the franchise similar to that introduced into Virginia. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings] Reference
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