How To Use Aristocracy In A Sentence

The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
The two could no longer coexist and it was therefore a class struggle between the Southern slaveholding aristocracy and the Northern capitalist democracy.
These terms were agreeable to the Magyar aristocracy, but could not satisfy the revolutionaries or moderates among the lesser nobility.
The tremendous pressure placed on Louisville workers to cater to the horse aristocracy was not limited to industries in direct contact with race fans.
Therefore, the monastic reforms should be regarded at least as much in the light of co-operation as of combat between king and aristocracy.

They expressed the triumph of legal equality and state authority over the privileges of the landed aristocracy.
There was no striking surge of bourgeois capital into land, no great expropriation of the landed aristocracy or gentry.
These groups were the intelligentsia, civil servants, the labour aristocracy, and successful petty producers.
He had then made the time-worn accusation that the pretensions of the courts reduced the kingdom to an aristocracy of magistrates.
Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class.
The same argument holds if some section of the population hold a disproportionate amount of wealth and power - you essentially get a de facto aristocracy.
After a brief flirtation with the national interest, the aristocracy is back to putting dynasty before duty.
If you've ever wondered how the Russian aristocracy managed to bring a revolution upon themselves, some of the answers are indeed contained within the walls of the Hermitage.
In a society organized according to hierarchical caste, land was controlled by the aristocracy, and the lower classes rented, borrowed, or worked the land according to a sharecropping system.
This reading certainly invites us to look at Timon as an early modern critique of the growing and rapacious power of capitalism, which robs the aristocracy of its idealized form of patriarchy, based upon oligarchic, homosocial bonds.
Liverpool like Fernando Torres and also the non-embarrassing type of Americans, Americans with an air of chino-sporting Massachusetts aristocracy who. Wayne Rooney, Americans and the terrible burden of ambition
The modern magazine reader is a member of the new bourgeois varletry, the monied class that makes the old nouveau riche look like aristocracy. Chance Abutmenting (a counter-critique of Peter Schjeldahl)
The literary traditions of the senatorial aristocracy had also survived intact.
Without going here into further details, we may gather from what has been said above that the comitia tributa were the most favourable to popular government, and the comitia centuriata to aristocracy. The Social Contract
You see, I represent what he would call the monied aristocracy of A Poor Wise Man
The American titled aristocracy was short-lived, though there is still an association of descendents of landgraves and cassiques in South Carolina today.
Exquisite food was valued by the aristocracy, therefore, one of the ways nonnoble or newly noble families could advance their social ambitions was by offering meals that were too good to refuse. Savoring The Past
By the way, in those times cards were not only a means to beguile the time, but also a symbol of the society structure: hearts embodied the priests, diamonds meant the bourgeoisie, spades represented officers and aristocracy, clubs referred to the peasants.
Peasants assembled, armed themselves, and prepared to fight off the ruthless hirelings of aristocracy.
Of course the prince was right, but the sybaritic lifestyle of the old tsarist aristocracy invited nemesis. Times, Sunday Times
The greater aristocracy built up their estates, often in several counties, and protected them from the follies of spendthrift heirs by the entail or strict settlement.
Both argued that irrespective of the form of government, be it monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, a relatively compact minority always ruled.
A lot of the tendencies and currents of the times favored the building up of an aristocracy based on the ownership of city property.
The duke gave these back out to those loyal to him, transforming his barons into an aristocracy that was loyal to him.
First, he explains his political position lest anyone accuse him of being a lickspittle of the aristocracy.
He dresses conservatively-black shoes and all-the only hint at aristocracy being a tiny monogram on the shirt pocket.
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
The principle of aristocracy is irradicably bound up in the Arabian social economy. Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
The nation's elite sends its children to boarding schools in the tradition of the British aristocracy.
Second, I don't think an aristocracy is a necessary condition for the appreciation and expression of craftspersonship, in part because I don't think craft is necessarily exorbitantly expensive. Meringue is Evil
Portraits of the aristocracy of the viceregal era include members of the clergy, the military and the landed gentry.
Britain is unusual among European nations in that it still has an aristocracy which holds enormous art collections, which usually hang in the long-established family country house.
Towering over the viewer, it is an imposing icon, with a size and status which at the time would have been customary for portraits of the aristocracy or gentry.
There is no such fawner on the aristocracy, if he has but a chance of getting any thing out of them, as a _parvenu_ by birth, a liberal in politics, and an Independent by "_religious persuasion_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
While happy to mingle with aristocracy and royalty, he retained pride in his middling origins, claiming that the name Franklin itself echoed the status of his long line of freeholding ancestors.
But as long as the political monopoly of the slaveholders was broken, enfranchised blacks would have the power to prevent the re-emergence of aristocracy and inequality.
The word aristocracy appeared late in our language, arriving via France in the mid-sixteenth century. 'Aristocrats'
Before his marriage, Mr. Weld lodged, on principle, in a colored family in New York, even submitting to the inconvenience of having no heat in his room in winter, and bearing with singular charity and patience what Sarah calls the sanctimonious pride and Pharisaical aristocracy of his hosts. The Grimke Sisters
During the sacking of the houses of the local aristocracy, pillaging was sufficiently controlled for some of the furnishings to be given to the poor, to deflect accusations of theft.
The old Lombard aristocracy was gradually crumbling away except in the far north and the distant south.
Manchester men, of the class who run at the aristocracy, the army, and the navy just as a bull runs at a red rag, will perhaps be very angry at our saying this; but we speak as we have found mobs at fires, and chatty fustian jackets in third class trains on the Lancashire and Yorkshire line; and, although a friend protests against the opinion, we still think that the ordinary Manchester millhand looks on his employer with about the same feelings that Mr. John Bright regards a colonel in the guards. Rides on Railways
Consequently it reflects, to a considerable extent, the political evolution of the nation, from governing monarchy, through oligarchy and aristocracy, to parliamentary democracy.
after the revolution the aristocracy was finished
Despite the fall of the wealth of Britain's aristocracy over the last century, the titled still have a heavy presence with the Queen, 10 dukes, seven marquesses, 19 earls, seven viscounts and 24 lords still leaping in the list.
In fact, like Lorenzo, the Tuscan aristocracy liked nothing better than to slum it when it came to gastronomy.
Well, it served the purposes of the real corporate aristocracy to let them believe that until they had created the means of training and educating their replacements.
The origin of their name is involved in great difficulties, but the most satisfactory conjecture is that the Sadducees or Zadokites were originally identical with the sons of Zadok, and constituted what may be termed a kind of sacerdotal aristocracy, this Zadok being the priest who declared in favor of Solomon when Abiathar took the part of Adonijah. Smith's Bible Dictionary
This was true of knights, nobles and princes - all ranks of the feudal aristocracy produced younger sons prepared to maintain rank through military force.
Slights of this sort propelled the planters to build bigger and gaudier country homes than the English landed aristocracy could normally afford, bedecked with canvases by Velázquez, and Rubens and the occasional Ming vase. Sugar in the Raw
It was an almost unreasonably handsome face, the sharp chiseled cheekbones and slightly aquiline nose lending it an air of aristocracy she had not expected to find in a small Virginia town in the middle of nowhere.
Although he is descended from Russian aristocracy, he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
The mendicants enjoyed rapid and phenomenal success, attracting support not only from the crown and aristocracy, who frequently employed them as confessors and advisers, but also from urban patrons.
Miss Julia Sherwood's marriage, nor did he go into full particulars as to the personality of Mrs. Frank Armour; but he did say that, because he knew they were anxious that he should marry "acceptably," he had married into the aristocracy, the oldest aristocracy of America; and because he also knew they wished him to marry wealth, he sent them a wife rich in virtues -- native, unspoiled virtues. The Translation of a Savage, Complete
This makes William Wallace less of an historical oddity for not being a member of the aristocracy when he staged his famous rebellion.
Announcing to his New York readers, in July 1937, that the film-star Virginia Cherrill was due to marry an English earl, Paul also passed along the news that the British aristocracy were determined to ostracise the young screen actress, as a gesture of support towards the first, discarded wife of Lord Jersey. Chaplin’s Girl
Middle class people can claim neither the heroic struggles of the proletariat nor the cultural hauteur and effortless savoir faire of the aristocracy.
A list of six names was compiled by the gossips and rumour-mongers of Belgravia, among them key figures from high society - aristocracy, government ministers and film stars.
In the fifth century the popes embarked, in alliance with the local aristocracy, on a programme of urban renewal.
That unhallowed booty created a factitious aristocracy, ever fearful that they might be called upon to regorge their sacrilegious spoil. Coningsby
But free states and aristocracies are mostly destroyed from want of a fixed administration of public affairs; the cause of which evil arises at first from want of a due mixture of the democratic and the oligarchic parts in a free state; and in an aristocracy from the same causes, and also from virtue not being properly joined to power; but chiefly from the two first, I mean the undue mixture of the democratic and oligarchic parts; for these two are what all free states endeavour to blend together, and many of those which we call aristocracies, in this particular these states differ from each other, and on this account the one of them is less stable than the other, for that state which inclines most to an oligarchy is called an aristocracy, and that which inclines most to a democracy is called a free state; on which account this latter is more secure than the former, for the wider the foundation the securer the building, and it is ever best to live where equality prevails. Politics: A Treatise on Government
As the church and aristocracy led an assault on the radical ideas coming from revolutionary France, Goya and his progressive friends found themselves under attack.
Among the smaller northern peoples there was no tribal aristocracy, chiefs only being chosen temporarily for specific purposes such as war.
A Labor Prime Minister ‘born to be a king’ is destined to produce a ‘powerful Governor-General’, ‘a bunyip aristocracy’.
The titian-haired lady of the finely-chiselled features detects the Scottish accent and confides that husband number one had been a Scot, a member of the aristocracy.
The latter two are deviously funny as perverts, self-aggrandising but insecure bounty hunters, game-show-host-styled hangmen, and lords and ladies of the depraved aristocracy.
It was only later that he learned from Jean that Kathleen was engaged to William Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington and the future Duke of Devonshire, a wealthy member of the British aristocracy. Teddy Kennedy
The people of the Golden Horde were a mixture of Turks and Mongols, with the latter generally constituting the aristocracy. Archive 2001-01-01
But Ned merely acted out the worst fears of a bunyip aristocracy – laughed in their apoplectic faces, stole their horses and a few head of steers Archive 2008-04-01
The personal authority of the aristocracy has decreased with the disappearance of Ranelagh and similar places of amusement, where rank was not exclusive, and luxury by the gratification it occasioned others seemed robbed of half its selfism. Venetia
They considered themselves a landed meritocracy rather than a regressive aristocracy.
Although he is descended from Russian aristocracy, he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
The Ottoman system had no hereditary aristocracy, and its rulers worked hard to make sure that one did not arise.
German aristocracy who refuse to go to court, and are accordingly called by the name Fronde, first given to the opponents of Cardinal William of Germany
Highly prized de luxe models continued to be commissioned by the aristocracy and members of the bourgeoisie.
The untitled aristocracy have in this great work as perfect a dictionary of their genealogical history, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the peerage and baronetage. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
There's huge pride in the dog's lineage, its pedigree - as if breeders were talking about their own family trees, as if they're descended from aristocracy.
Nor, despite their republicanism, did they seek the destruction of aristocracy.
In the fifth century the popes embarked, in alliance with the local aristocracy, on a programme of urban renewal.
The politician does it to secure votes; but the worst class is composed of those who edit papers that circulate only among the scum of society, and embittered by the sight of luxuries beyond their reach, are always ready to denounce the rich and excite the lower classes against what they call the oppression of the aristocracy. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873
They seem to contain many popular beliefs and customs, perhaps as practiced by the non-Aryan locals, and were later accepted by the aristocracy and the priestly class.
'Nec dierum numerum, ut nos, sed noctium computant,' said Mr. Raikes, and both the brothers sniffed like dogs that have put their noses to a hot coal, and the Countess, who was less insensible to the aristocracy of the dead languages than are women generally, gave him the recognition that is occasionally afforded the family tutor. Evan Harrington — Volume 7
In the early 1850s, when Wentworth chaired the committee appointed to draft a new constitution for NSW, his unsuccessful plea for an upper house based on a hereditary colonial peerage was mocked as a bunyip aristocracy.
The Fronde was the last campaign of the aristocracy. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
It is impossible, that the People, as one Body Politick, should covenant with the Aristocracy or Optimates.
But it turned out it's really hard to make a humble tradesperson unlikeable, so he became new-money-aristocracy instead (much easier to dislike). The Great Name Change
Among the Milanese aristocracy in the years 1600-49, for instance, the percentage of celibates, men and women, is stunning: 49 per cent of the men, 75 per cent of the women.
A list of six names was compiled by the gossips and rumour-mongers of Belgravia, among them key figures from high society - aristocracy, government ministers and film stars.
_Has_ a rule I find the merest nod of my 'ed a sufficient saloot to a woman of the aristocracy -- but for _'er_, Mamzelle, I never fail to show' er up with a court bow! Thelma
The aristocracy of Barchester consisted chiefly of clerical dignitaries, bishops, deans, prebendaries, and such like: on them and theirs it was not probable that anything said by Sir Roger would have much effect. Doctor Thorne
'Vandyke' was the early Victorian spelling of the surname of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, the seventeenth-century Flemish painter famous for his fine portraits of members of the English aristocracy and royal court. 'The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Books, Bodies, Fortune, Fame'
Apparently only to substitute the autocracy of a new proletarian aristocracy for the autocracy of the old regime, and the czardom of Lenine and Trotzky for that of the Romanoffs. The Red Conspiracy
While gentlemen of the aristocracy lounged at the National Theatre, drunken throngs hooted at busty showgirls in the latest burlesque revues.
His conception of the aristocracy was an exalted one; so was his conception of empire.
Macarthur's flocks were based on Spanish merinos and the term pure merino became a metaphor for colonial aristocracy.
A cross-Channel aristocracy developed, holding lands in both territories and having a vested interest in keeping them united in one ruler.
Granted, since most modern readers live lives thankfully remote from the class-consciousness of an aristocracy, it is hard to come up with a courtly idiom that is both plausible and comprehensible without sounding fustily British.
The nation's elite sends its children to boarding schools in the tradition of the British aristocracy.
The agenda of the aristocracy is the destruction of western civilization. What the Hell is going on?
But whatever his precise social status or reason forpreaching in the kingdom of Israel, the oracles recorded in his name provide a searing condemnation of the lavish lifestyles and material reality of Israel’s aristocracy in the eighth centuryBCE: The Bible Unearthed
Example: the rise of the bourgeoisie over the aristocracy comes through a redefinition of material influence from connections and birthrights to pure wealth and educational knowhow.
The weakening of the aristocracy by war and by execution gave to the crown a power before unknown, and made it a fearful coigne of vantage for English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
It's a fascinating read, and reveals the extent to which rakish elements amongst landowners and the aristocracy staked huge wagers on the outcome of sporting events.
At one time it is a pompous banquet in a superb saloon festooned with gold, with tall lustrous windows and pale crimson curtains, the doge in his simarre dining with the magistrates in purple robes, and masked guests gliding over the floor; nothing is more elegant than the exquisite aristocracy of their small feet, their slender necks and their jaunty little three-cornered hats among skirts flounced with yellow or pearly gray silks. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
After a dozen years of halfhearted efforts to achieve political and social reform, leaders north and south agreed to end reconstruction, returning the heirs of the southern aristocracy to power and leaving African Americans disfranchised, destitute, and more racially segregated than they had been before the war. Between War and Peace
Among the smaller northern peoples there was no tribal aristocracy, chiefs only being chosen temporarily for specific purposes such as war.
The labour aristocracy made the transition to the factory floor more painlessly, taking on the task of foremen.
Until the twentieth century, the primary patrons of churches and monasteries were the aristocracy, the only group in society who possessed the means to sponsor such projects.
On the whole, I am inclined to think that the artist is fully rewarded, for the common man can have no conception of the Joy that is to be found in belonging, though but momentarily and illusively, to the aristocracy of genius. The Ghost Ship
In Jean Renoir's magnificent, near morbid class structure comedy The Rules of the Game, we learn that the most insular of communities, the supposedly noble aristocracy, is filled with liars, cheats, and unabashed adulterers.
And a large portion of the British aristocracy lives in genteel poverty. LADY BE GOOD
On one side the ultras, whose objection to transfer a portion of the Royal authority to what they call the aristocracy, occupy nearly all the posts which influence the operations of the electoral assemblies. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1
It is not as if the aristocracy exercises any power over the rest of us any more.
He dresses conservatively-black shoes and all-the only hint at aristocracy being a tiny monogram on the shirt pocket.
the blue-blooded aristocracy
Even the liberal wing of the aristocracy took its tone from the salons of bluestockings.
The gulf between the labour aristocracy and the mass of unskilled or semi-skilled workers was virtually unbridgeable; but at the upper end of the social stratum the labour aristocracy merged with the lower middle class.
Oddly enough, the benefits he conferred upon the common people had the result of weakening the aristocracy, the social class from which he came.
Her latest novel paints a very vivid portrait of the aristocracy in the 1920s.
Boswell's life is unusual in illuminating not only the underworld of the prostitutes among whom he spent an impressive proportion of his time but also the heavy, static society of the Scottish aristocracy and the fierily loquacious world of London's "clubbable" men. Bozzy's Life
The Scythians rejected the Greek way of life, but their aristocracy frequently used jewelry and toreutics made by the Greeks especially for them and adapted to their taste.
Tolstoy foresaw the end of the aristocracy in Russian society.
Corporate people are capitalism's new aristocracy.
The reforms fade as he speaks of the dark designs of regional foes, while his guileful chief coalition partner, the burly, corruption-shadowed grand vizier, a rival for the political affection of the aristocracy, exploits long-simmering hatreds to push for a broad range of curbs on democratic freedoms. Bradley Burston: In Israel, the revolution has already begun
In the past, stag hunting had been the preserve of the aristocracy and small-scale hare and fox hunting that of the country squires.
The tradition amongst the land-owning aristocracy was that the eldest son inherited everything, while their brothers were expected to go into the Church or the army.
In Great Britain the landowning aristocracy sought to protect itself by having the government pass protective ‘Corn Laws’ which kept out cheap foreign grain for the benefit of home producers.
This step was taken much earlier in London, where the Philharmonic Society was founded by an élite of the aristocracy, gentry, City, and professions in 1813.
Kings are out of date: communication by canalboat is out of date; an aristocracy is out of date, none more so than a male aristocracy. Nora Stanton Blatch, engineer and feminist
They would call this a meritocracy, others would see it merely entrenching the moneyed aristocracy.
Others have found it more problematical because of its links with theories of embourgeoisement and the role of the labour aristocracy.
By the time Messrs Landale and Morgan took to the field, duelling had ceased to be the preserve of the aristocracy and had been taken up by members of the middle classes.
He cultivated members of the aristocracy and sprinkled them among his company boards to impress potential investors.
However, an expert on the aristocracy says Jamie Blandford's antics are adding fuel to the Republican cause.
In large towns, it tended to act as a collaborating class, offering the aristocracy and the upper middle class the means of power in exchange for recognition and status.
They rented it, fully furnished, from David Ogilvie, and used their beautiful home to wine and dine the local aristocracy.
There was no such system of rotten boroughs, no such domination of a landed aristocracy, throughout the South as has been imagined, and venality, which is the disgrace of current politics, was practically unknown. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
A major consequence of this was the drastic reduction of the casato's collateral lines (and, in the long run, the demographic decline of the aristocracy).
Among those infected were several scions of the topmost aristocracy who were being educated abroad.
The poetry and literature was often a mirror of how the king and the aristocracy who surrounded him liked to think of themselves.
Aristotle pointed out in his book of lectures The Politics and in his studies of constitutions that aristocracy as an ideal too often degenerated into either oligarchy, the rule of the powerful, or plutocracy, the rule of the rich.
The English aristocracy of the 19th century cared little for the poor and destitute.
He said you'd have to be a fly on the wall at a gathering of British Aristocracy to find a group of less use and worth.
In a word, aristocracy was displaced by plutocracy.
The move was inspired by the Helvetic Committee in Paris, a revolutionary group headed by Frédéric-César de La Harpe, (17541838), a Vaudois whose great aim was the liberation of his homeland from the hated Bernese aristocracy, and by Peter Ochs of Basel, who drafted the Helvetic constitution and submitted it to the directory. 1798, Jan. 23
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
His conception of the aristocracy was an exalted one; so was his conception of empire.
Scott's casual attitude to debt was certainly closer to that of the aristocracy than the middle class.
But are they really any more vaingloriously ambitious than those constructed by the landed aristocracy of the 18th century, Victorian mill-owners, or Citizen Kane himself?
This dramatic renversement des alliances transformed the Hashemites from Arab aristocracy into actors on the international stage. 'Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace'
As much as Tocqueville owes to Enlightenment insights, his work belongs, as well, to the counter-Enlightenment strain of the liberal tradition — impressionistic and exhortative, idealistic in its use of types and fatalistic in its approach to history, sentimental both in its portrayal of a declining aristocracy and in its invocation of the turbulent United States as a manner of natural order. The Visitor
Sherwood's marriage, nor did he go into full particulars as to the personality of Mrs. Frank Armour; but he did say that, because he knew they were anxious that he should marry "acceptably," he had married into the aristocracy, the oldest aristocracy of America; and because he also knew they wished him to marry wealth, he sent them a wife rich in virtues -- native, unspoiled virtues. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
Let no one exclaim against aristocracy; were we all perfectly _equal to-day_, there would be an _aristocracy to-morrow_. Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
Immigrants who made money often tried to slim down to appear to be longtime members of the aristocracy.
He dresses film stars, supermodels and the aristocracy of pop in clothes that are symbols of status and success.
Yet when one thinks of the famed Tory backwoodsmen of the House of Lords, it is hard to regard the aristocracy as a hotbed of dissent.
That is, all societies, once they move from the level of hunting and gathering to that of Command, create categories of privilege and disprivilege, ranging from aristocracy to slavery, from class to caste, from the rights of property to the disadvantages of penury. The Worldly Philosophers
In the early nineteenth century, the area began to be canalized, the banks being claimed for agriculture by the aristocracy. Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests
The mendicants enjoyed rapid and phenomenal success, attracting support not only from the crown and aristocracy, who frequently employed them as confessors and advisers, but also from urban patrons.
The more, therefore, an aristocracy calls to its aid its innate forces, -- its impenetrability, its high spirit, its power of haughty resistance, -- to deal with an epoch of expansion, the graver is the danger, the greater the certainty of explosion, the surer the aristocracy's defeat; for it is trying to do violence to nature instead of working along with it. Culture and Anarchy
Some openly praised the virtues of aristocracy, though they made clear that they opposed hereditary aristocracy.
In the fifth century the popes embarked, in alliance with the local aristocracy, on a programme of urban renewal.
When the guillotine dropped on King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, it might have been thought that France had abandoned all trappings of aristocracy.
Society divided broadly into a warrior aristocracy and a largely agricultural commons.
The marketing gurus have been the aristocracy of the sales-marketing community.
He had then made the time-worn accusation that the pretensions of the courts reduced the kingdom to an aristocracy of magistrates.
The Scottish aristocracy, made up of dukes, marquesses, earldoms and viscounts, still in this age of post-deference hold significant power and wealth.
Not even his own had been immune: Peter Wildeblood, members of the aristocracy, people within the most ancient university.
The growing prestige of Parliament as an institution gave the aristocracy a powerful base from which to challenge the monarchy and defend itself against the commonalty.
The British aristocracy, on expatriate imperial postings to African countries, learn the classic pub game of darts.
creamware", which caught the attention of the local aristocracy, and in early 1765, to his stunned delight, he received an order for a tea set for Queen Charlotte, with candlesticks and fruit baskets, "with a gold ground and raised flowers upon it in green". The Guardian World News
Aristotle produced a complex taxonomy of constitutions, the three main types of which are monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.
The sense of class worthiness, that is to say of status, of a honorific differentiation of the sexes according to a distinction between superior and inferior intellectual dignity, survives in a vigorous form in these corporations of the aristocracy of learning. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
And though the necessities of modern life, the decay of wealth, the dwindling of old aristocracy, and the absorption of what was once an independent state in the Italian nation, have obliterated that large signorial splendour of the Middle Ages, we feel that the modern Sienese are not unworthy of their courteous ancestry. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
The first and lowest were the Dicteriads, so called from Diete (Crete), who imitated Pasiphaë, wife of Minos, in preferring a bull to a husband; above them was the middle class, the Aleutridæ, who were the Almahs or professional musicians, and the aristocracy was represented by the Hetairai, whose wit and learning enabled them to adorn more than one page of Grecian history. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Then there was Sir Thomas himself: a title conferring aristocracy; a man who was urbane, intelligent, and generous, donating millions to charity and supporting worthwhile causes through his philanthropy. The Viognier Vendetta
The boyars were the senior aristocracy, the only force in the country capable of competing with the tsar-often with catastrophic results. Russian Road Trip
He reveals the type of sinister social manoeuvers necessary to maintain the exclusivity of the aristocracy.
Much of the native Kentucky racing establishment resent the perceived dilution of racing's aristocracy.
You have no doubt remarked," said Florestan, with a smile, "that the persons assembled here this evening do not belong to what we call the aristocracy -- A Cardinal Sin
The White Australia policy was particularly championed by the ALP, the emerging trade union aristocracy and a whole host of petty bourgeois populists.
They had been the "chinking" between the "mud" of slavery and the "house-logs" of aristocracy in the social structure of the South -- a little better than the mud because of the same grain and nature as the logs; but useless and nameless except as in relation to both. Bricks without Straw A Novel
And what if your great great grandfather turns out to be a thief or rat - catcher rather than a member of the aristocracy?
As part of the feudal system, primogeniture maintained the political and social status of the aristocracy.
Elsewhere populism drew upon a peasantry tied to the land as part of the ownership by an aristocracy or local grandees of large estates, as in tsarist Russia and even today in South America and India.
It is often debated whether there was a real distinction, in later medieval England, between the culture of the expanded aristocracy of gentlefolk and that of the higher, traditional, chivalrous aristocracy.
If Caleb could have concentrated all the lightnings of aristocracy in his eye, to have struck dead this contemner of allegiance and privilege, he would have launched them at his head, without respect to the consequences. The Bride of Lammermoor
He was built more like a dockhand than a descendant of local aristocracy. The Glass Rainbow
Dreyfusism had brought to Swann an extraordinary simplicity of mind and had imparted to his way of looking at things an impulsiveness, an inconsistency more noticeable even than had been the similar effects of his marriage to Odette; this new loss of caste would have been better described as a recasting, and was entirely to his credit, since it made him return to the ways in which his forebears had trodden and from which he had turned aside to mix with the aristocracy. The Guermantes Way
I had always thought that the Centaur was a mythical beast, but obviously the Greek aristocracy know where to find them.
It must be an aristocracy too of the most dangerous kind, for it will consist of strangers and of those few of our youth, whose parents are able to bear the expense of education, in what the Citizen no doubt calls aristocratical countries. Letter from Joseph Caldwell to the Wilmington Gazette, 1805 or After
To his contemporaries he seemed subversive, robbing aristocracy of its sumptuary prerogatives.
Perhaps the main problem for these Marxist writers is the aristocracy of labour in the advanced industrial countries.
The gulf between the labour aristocracy and the mass of unskilled or semi-skilled workers was virtually unbridgeable; but at the upper end of the social stratum the labour aristocracy merged with the lower middle class.
By 1815 the Junker aristocracy was back in the saddle and concessions became even more restricted.
Since the days of Macarthur there has been a bunyip aristocracy in Australia that has been offended by the idea of having to pay to acquire labour.

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