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• n  the state of being of noble birth
• n  members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility)

• Instead her rhetoric rings with noblesse oblige.
• Fueled by noblesse oblige and municipal pride, a wealthy local won't need to squeeze the last dollar out of the business.
• And immigrant women and children in steerage didn't qualify for the noblesse oblige above decks.

• nobility

News & Articles

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• South Korean Man Poses as HMS Grad to Woo Fiancée and Take Her Money
  Harvard students are notoriously wary of "dropping the H-bomb" in everyday life, and our collegiate version of noblesse oblige—the old “I go to school in Cambridge”—has become proverbial . But, at least in some countries, fans of the the Crimson seem to have fewer qualms about name dropping—especially if they’ve never set foot at Harvard.
  Sept. 21, 2013 - The Harvard Crimson

Quotes

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• Sidney Blumenthal in ISN
  Bush's relationship with Rice is perhaps the strangest of his many relationships,Sidney Blumenthal wrote in a September 2006 article for Salon.com. "The mysterious attachment involves complex transactions of noblesse oblige and deference,...
• David Remnick in FOXNews
  Remnick concluded his piece by writing: "A man with Bloomberg's sense of noblesse oblige should know that there is something unseemly about waltzing into the Presidential race, or even hinting at it, for no reason more compelling than that he can...
• Rupert Murdoch in Adelaide Advertiser
  Rupert Murdoch said the theme of his mother's life was "her constant work for others, which goes on as she practises her true noblesse oblige".