patrician

How To Use patrician In A Sentence

• Between 500 and 300 B.C., there developed within the body of the citizenry, a division between two social groups or classes: patricians and plebeians.
• Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians.
• Then he turned back to the rich young patricians who were all laughing at her expense.
• It has been long known as a patrician, white-shoe firm with an air so understated and secretive that at least one former exec likened it to working at the CIA.
• She is fearsome and patrician, with steely grey hair and rock-solid ideals. Times, Sunday Times
• He was at once a Queens pol and yet the most patrician figure in American politics.
• Another very common form of interaction between socially disproportionate individuals was that between Roman patricians and their freedmen.
• In ancient Roman society it was represented by the patricians.
• However, where Horowitz gives you mainly patrician elegance, Moravec seems to give you the lagniappe of something deeply felt as well, without wallowing in it.
• In the second of these interregna a contest arose because two patrician consuls were elected. The History of Rome, Vol. II