(~s)
1.
A ~ is a person who comes from a family of high social rank. (FORMAL)
...the ~ banker Sir Charles Villiers.
? plebeian
N-COUNT
2.
If you describe someone as ~, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank.
He was a lean, ~ gent in his early sixties.
ADJ