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nobleman

noh buhl muhn

  • n  a titled peer of the realm

  • A band of Cilician pirates kidnapped a 25-year old Roman nobleman on the way to Rhodes.
  • A British nobleman married into Hollywood royalty, Christopher Guest chronicles ever hopeful wannabes.
  • In this way, the old nobleman became the most world-renowned man his ancient race had produced for centuries.
News & Articles

  • Weekend planner for May 17-19
    Nevada Opera presents Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni,” at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Pioneer Center in downtown Reno. The story is based on Don Giovanni, a young, arrogant, sexually promiscuous nobleman who abuses and outrages everyone in the cast.
    June 16, 2013 - Reno Gazette-Journal
Quotes

  • Ian Rankin in guardian.co.uk
    It's a true story of a 16th-century Italian nobleman who killed his wife, his wife's lover, and his son, because he thinks he might be a bastard,said Rankin. "He repents but he is eventually killed by his second wife."
  • Norman Mailer in The New York Review of Books
    Mailer sees clearly the political death rattles of the old WASP aristocracy, destined to "grow more insane each year, like a rich nobleman in an empty castle chasing elves and ogres with his stick."
  • Avigdor Lieberman in Ha'aretz
    My response, which I made in order to clarify that the situation [with Syria] is unbearable, was immediately met with a hysterical reaction in Israel of 'how dare we anger the nobleman,'Lieberman said on Friday in an interview with Channel 2...

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