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In Roman times, runners would bring snow down from Mount Etna to be flavoured and served to wealthy patricians.
At least he possessed good manners, as a true patrician should.
He plays the handsome patrician who cheated his way to fame and fortune.
He was intimidated by her father, a stern, demanding patrician.

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patrician | American Dictionary

patrician
noun[ C ]
us/pəˈtrɪʃ·ən/
a person of high social class:
She is descended from a long line of patricians
world history
In ancient Rome, a patrician was a member of one of the families of original citizens of the city

Examples of patrician

patrician
However, even in this context, patrician fathers were dismayed to see the lengths to which their sons took this trend.
At the same time there is a reassertion of patronage directed toward a degraded patrician relic.
While patrician institutions have buildings that record their history, working class and ethnic communities rarely share that privilege.
In the absence of detailed studies it is difficult to draw firm conclusions about developments within patrician consumer behaviour.
He shall know at a glance the festive theatre and the stern hall of hoodwinked justice, the modest hospital and the patrician palace.
Toward his more scientifically inclined colleagues he affects a patrician and withering contempt.
In general, each city or town had its own governing council, a body of wealthy male patricians kept in office by wealth and custom.
Two further aspects of patrician life escape a simplistic patrilineal interpretation, and yet are important defining features of patrician masculinity.
But the spirit world was notoriously the realm of popular enthusiasm or of patrician wit and satire.
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, patrician rivalry remained the most visible dynamic of political relations.
Protestant patricians happily gave their servants the day off to go to patterns.
Further, the yards themselves (even those of the patrician elite) were exceptionally small, from 1850 onwards conventionally 150 square feet (about 14 square metres).
This was the authentic patrician voice of the conservative home ruler.
Patrician families needed to place their surplus female offspring in the convent, as this was cheaper than marriage.
The government of the town had been vested at an early date in its patrician families.
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