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• s  belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
  an aristocratic family
  aristocratic Bostonians
  aristocratic government
  aristocratic bearing
  aristocratic features

• What the Maharaja felt for many of them, especially the office-hungry respectable bureaucrats of the trades unions, was nothing but a fine, aristocratic disdain.
• But over the past 12 years, what people have found to be most appealing about the aristocratic family's grounds has been the burial site of Princess Diana.
• To those who savor such things, British royals are the first among equals of world royalty, the last symbols of an aristocratic society that has largely disappeared in most places .

• aristocratical
• blue
• blue-blooded
• gentle
• patrician

News & Articles

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• ANN ARBOR: Mozart meets Downton in new Arbor Opera production
  An aristocratic household undergoing personal turmoil? Love affairs between bluebloods and servants? Shocking and unexpected plot twists — all within the confines of a lavish European estate?
  June 13, 2013 - Ann Arbor Journal

Quotes

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• Warren Buffett in Washington Post
  The resources of society I don't think should pass along in terms of an aristocratic dynasty of wealth,Buffett told the panel. "I believe in keeping equality of opportunity as much as you can in this country."
• Carla Bruni in National
  The official translation of what she actually wrote was this: "The companion of the new UK head of government is a kind of fashion icon. Aristocratic but bohemian, practitioner of yoga and close to the ecological cause, this mother of three has...
• Vince Cable in AFP
  The City bankers who ruined their banks but have been kept in employment by the taxpayer now demand we pay them their bonuses to maintain the aristocratic lifestyle to which they have become accustomed,Vince Cable, finance spokesman for the...