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Patrician

noun

A person of refined upbringing and manners.

A member of the aristocracy. Synonyms: aristocrat, blue blood.

adjective

Befitting a person of noble origin.

Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy. Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle. "Aristocratic Bostonians" , "Aristocratic government" , "A blue family" , "Blue blood" , "The blue-blooded aristocracy" , "Of gentle blood" , "Patrician landholders of the American South" , "Aristocratic bearing" , "Aristocratic features" , "Patrician tastes"

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"Patrician" Quotes from Famous Books

... rare patrician features Eclipse the brows of ruddier gleam, So masquerade as rustic creatures Gay ...

— Enamels and Cameos and other Poems • Theophile Gautier

... sculptor to despair, as their muscles played like pulsing liquid beneath the tinted, velvet skin of wrists and forearms; her short skirt bared her shapely legs above the ankles half-way to the knees; her feet, never pinched by shoes and now quite bare, slender, graceful, patrician in their modelling, in strong contrast to the linsey-woolsey of her gown and rough surroundings, were as dainty as a ...

— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

... The patrician in literature is always an interesting spectacle. We are prone to regard his performance as a test of the worth of long descent and high breeding. If he does well, he vindicates the claims of his caste; if ill, we infer that inherited estates and blue blood are ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various

... watched proceedings, and in case aught failed to please them, they would show resistance. Next they were invited inside. Later, however, the ex-tribunes were numbered with the senators, and finally some of the senators actually were permitted to be tribunes, unless a man chanced to be a patrician. Patricians the people would not accept: having chosen the tribunes to defend them against the patricians, and having advanced them to so great power, they dreaded lest one of them might turn his strength to contrary purposes and use it against them. But if a man abjured the rank given ...

— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio

... were hurrying along the street that leads down from the Palatine Hill toward the Forum, and both were young. Their high shoes fastened with quadruple thongs and adorned with small silver crescents proclaimed their patrician rank. ...

— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne

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