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  • adjective Alternative spelling of highborn.

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Examples

  • Subsequent publishers sought to include not just the high-born and well-connected, but also local philanthropists who support educational and cultural institutions.

    Denver's Society Bible Hits the Skids Stephanie Simon 2011

  • They weren't even Idumaeans, as many in rabbinic literature enjoy referring to them -- Herod's father, who was a Greco-Arab Priest of Apollo from Gaza, for a time having been kidnapped by so-called Idumaeans; his mother, a high-born woman of Petra.

    Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011

  • Now she worried that the Machiavellian Men in Gray were already lining up European princesses and other high-born English beauties as potential matches for the future king.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Unlike the high-born Diana, whose Spencer-family bloodline was even bluer than that of the Teutonic Windsors, Kate was a commoner with working-class roots planted deep in the coal-fields of County Durham.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Unlike the high-born Diana, whose Spencer-family bloodline was even bluer than that of the Teutonic Windsors, Kate was a commoner with working-class roots planted deep in the coal-fields of County Durham.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Ranald kens nothing about the etiquette of welcoming high-born strangers properly, Sallie.

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

  • Ranald kens nothing about the etiquette of welcoming high-born strangers properly, Sallie.

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

  • I, who: struggled from the day I was born; had to educate myself; was not provided with the privilege accorded a high-born like Von Slipp — I am the one to be scorned?

    The light that draws the flower James Greer 2011

  • Each high-born ass — each "bit of blood" can breed,

    The Age Reviewed 2010

  • Now she worried that the Machiavellian Men in Gray were already lining up European princesses and other high-born English beauties as potential matches for the future king.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

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