aristocratic

• “In using the term aristocratic literature I have in mind an intellectual rather than a social category.”

  Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism

• “Russian Noblesse has little or nothing of what we call aristocratic feeling -- little or nothing of that haughty, domineering, exclusive spirit which we are accustomed to associate with the word aristocracy.”

  Russia

• “Mr. Millbank ever to enter what he called aristocratic society.”

  Coningsby

• “She was even once stopped in her carriage, which they called aristocratic, because of its arms and ornaments, and threatened to be murdered, and only saved by one of the worst wretches of the Convention, Tallien, who feared provoking a war with Sweden, from such an offence to the wife of its ambassador.”

  The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3

• “He published his first composition at age seven and began performing in aristocratic salons at eight.”

  Five People Born on March 1 | myFiveBest

• “He looks kind of like a foppish dandy … kind of aristocratic from the waist up.”

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• “Anglomania was pretty rife in aristocratic Paris, and the author of my main source (Cornelia Otis Skinner) was an expert on 1890s/1900s Parisian society.”

  The Tea Gown | Edwardian Promenade

• “For the Straussians modernity since Machiavelli has been a straight path to nihilism where all understanding of political virtue has been lost along with respect for a social hierarchy rooted in aristocratic values.”

  Think Progress » Colbert to Kristol: “How Is The New American Century?”

• “The period awareness of the book as physical object owed much to the curious phenomenon of bibiliomania, the sudden fashion for collecting early printed books and manuscripts that erupted in aristocratic and wealthy circles in the first two decades of the century and led to the formation in 1812 of the exclusive Roxburghe Club, forerunner of the learned reprint societies that were to flourish later in the century.”

  Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object

• “The "advantages" which Wortley Montagu enjoyed, conferred by her gender and class, allowed her to move with relative ease in aristocratic Turkish circles, and caused her to dismiss earlier travellers 'versions of the Levant as fictitious (Montagu 146).”

  Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-81

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