Noblesse
[nәu'bles]
Definition
(noun.) members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility).
Edited by Joanne--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.
(n.) The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.
Typist: Sonia
Synonyms and Synonymous
[Fr.] Aristocracy, peerage, nobility.
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Examples
- Why, gentlemen, if this sort of thing is allowed to go on, you will in a very few years _destroy the noblesse_! Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He was the heir of the rich and spirituelle Miss Crawley, whose house had been open to so many of the French noblesse during the emigration. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The French noblesse chose to have the people '_sans culottes_,' and they had '_sans culotte_' governors to their hearts' content. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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