patrician
/pəˈtɹɪʃən/ adjetivo C2- Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (“fathers”) or senators, or patricians.
- Of or pertaining to a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian; aristocratic.
- Characteristic of or appropriate to a person of high birth; classy.
- Politically active to help people in lower classes, especially in a patronizing or condescending way.
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‘Major Cavalcanti, a worthy patrician of Lucca, a descendant of the Cavalcanti of Florence,’” continued Monte Cristo, reading aloud, “‘possessing an income of half a million.’”
Many, also, who were not aware of the circumstances attending his withdrawal from Paris, were struck with the worthy appearance, the gentlemanly bearing, and the knowledge of the world displayed by the old patrician, who certainly played the nobleman very well, so long as he said nothing, and made no arithmetical calculations.
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