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patrician [pә'triʃәn]

n. 贵族, 有教养的人

a. 贵族的, 显贵的

[法] 贵族

patrician

[ noun ]

a person of refined upbringing and manners

<noun.person>

a member of the aristocracy

<noun.person>

[ adj ]

befitting a person of noble origin

<adj.all>

a patrician nose

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

<adj.all>

an aristocratic family

aristocratic Bostonians

aristocratic government

a blue family

blue blood

the blue-blooded aristocracy

of gentle blood

patrician landholders of the American South

aristocratic bearing

aristocratic features

patrician tastes

Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, a. [L. patricius, fr. patres fathers or
senators, pl. of pater: cf. F. patricien. See {Paternal}.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres
(fathers) or senators, or patricians.

2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high
birth; noble; not plebeian.

Born in the patrician file of society. --Sir W.
Scott.

His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood.
--Addison.

Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, n. [L. patricius: cf. F. patricien.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) Originally, a member of any of the families
constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman
citizens, before the development of the plebeian order;
later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege
conferred, belonged to the nobility.

2. A person of high birth; a nobleman.

3. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one
versed in patristic lore. [R.] --Colridge.

The Roman patricians respect their power, even if they dislike their origins and aspirations. Coriolanus himself, remember, is neither patrician nor lower class.
Salisbury treated the process with patrician disdain: 'No more tobacconists I entreat you,' he wrote to his colleague the Duke of Devonshire after a dodgy baronetcy raised eyebrows. The trafficking was hidden from public view.
He peppered his remarks with statistics, and despite his own patrician past, he portrayed himself as being on the side of working families.
Glyn and 'It' rings imaginary wisecracking variations on the theme of patrician Englishness meeting American crudeness and liking it.
Bentsen, an elegantly tailored, silver-haired patrician, is the scion of a wealthy landed family from the Rio Grande Valley.
Bentsen, an elegantly tailored, silver-haired patrician, is the scion of a wealthy landed family from the Rio Grande Valley and a leading member of the Senate Democratic establishment.
A substantially Catholic immigrant party gave an Episcopalian patrician, Franklin Roosevelt, the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932.
Conservatives at the time thought that they could rescue the situation by getting behind the election of an amiable and ineffectual patrician from New York state for the presidency.
Hers was not the clipped, patrician charm of Katharine Hepburn, or the coquettish zaniness of Carole Lombard.
Dole tried repeatedly to stir resentment against Bush and his patrician background.
The passage which touched me most, however, concerned Lo's return to China after 54 years to find his patrician family reduced to poverty by the cultural revolution. Lo has been poorly served by his editor.
Mr Kraus, an exceptionally well-preserved sexagenarian of elegant carriage and patrician profile, is hard to accept as a lovelorn peasant youth, graciously though he lends himself to the capers of the Covent Garden staging.

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