adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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family
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Of aristocratic family , Gallienus was highly educated, and his portrait exudes cultured refinement.
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The merchants soon managed to place their sons and daughters in aristocratic families , infiltrating them by marriage and adoption.
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Mrs Goreng came from an aristocratic family .
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His aristocratic family was so against his religious pursuits they locked him away for fifteen months.
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Six hundred men, some from the most distinguished aristocratic families , went on trial for the quixotic rising of December 1825.
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Gilbert was the scion of an ancient aristocratic family that had fallen somewhat into disrepute.
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The de Filipis were a very old, very aristocratic family .
society
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It reflected essential drives within aristocratic society towards establishing political jurisdictions in local terms.
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He was a social satirist who portrayed the vices and follies of the aristocratic society of the London of his time.
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Such relationships took their shape and meaning from the distribution of power, wealth and status in aristocratic society .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He spoke with an aristocratic accent.
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Pamela came from an aristocratic background.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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BDe Mori is a handsome man with light blue eyes and a high, aristocratic forehead.
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He was a dour Yankee, tall, confident, elegant, with a dry wit and aristocratic tastes.
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I could hardly go to the home of this aristocratic young woman with stubble on my face.
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Lachrymose comedy represented an attitude opposed to the aristocratic one.
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The Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 condensed representations both of aristocratic debauchery and the corrupting effects of foreign morals.
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When their eyes meet she envisions the fulfillment of her dream of marrying a man with aristocratic connections not from Middlemarch.