minor aristocracy

Minor aristocracy, but considers herself well up there.

The Knights were all at least minor aristocracy.

The hunters of the safari companies were a class of minor aristocracy in the deep bush.

The larger one claimed to be minor aristocracy.

Charles Morton was married three, possibly four times; he married into the minor aristocracy.

These religious miniatures were usually painted for convents, other religious institutions, the middle classes, and the minor aristocracy.

But then, Marian was a gentlewoman, a lady--only a generation or two from minor aristocracy.

A classic inbred Englishman, member of the minor aristocracy, pompous, condescending and- "I'd like very much to meet with you, if that's possible."

Ladmirault was born on 17 February 1808 at Montmorillon to an old family belonging to the Poitou minor aristocracy.

Over several generations the Newcome family rises into wealth and respectability as bankers and begin to marry into the minor aristocracy.

Tell me about Stefan.11 "The family are minor aristocracy, but Stefan prospers because Poles are all snobs at heart.

He was born into a minor Aristocracy (class) family, inheriting the German title of 'Freiherr' (equivalent to Baron).

These Azatan formed a numerous minor aristocracy of lower-ranking administrators, mostly living on their small estates and providing the cavalry backbone of Sassanid army.

In England, the term often refers to the social class of the landed aristocracy or to the minor aristocracy (see landed gentry) whose income derives from their large landholdings.

The Bergolo estates form part of the minor aristocracy in the Italian nobility of relatively recent heritage (the comital title Count Calvi of Bergolo being created in 1787).

She was born Marie Guyart in Tours, France, the fourth of the eight children of Florent Guyart, a master baker, and his wife, Jeanne Michelet, a member of the minor aristocracy.

Amedeo Guillet was born in Piacenza on February 7 1909 to a Savoyard-Piedmontese family of the minor aristocracy which for generations had served the dukes of Savoy, who later became the kings of Italy.

In contrast to England, where the wealthy began to move towards more comfortable grand houses, these continued to be built into the modern period, developing into the style of Scottish Baronial architecture in the 19th century, popular amongst the minor aristocracy and merchant class.

Born Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, in a small village in 1746, he was the son of a master gilder, a craftsman from Zaragoza, but his mother came from the hidalgo class, the minor aristocracy whose poverty-stricken arrogance blighted rural Spain.

Later to be known as the Carolean style (from "Carolus," the Latin name for the reigning monarch Charles II), it was popular with the minor aristocracy and gentry for both their town and country houses until long after Charles II's death.

They form the caste level that would be called sudra in India, that is, people outside the triwarna, or three colors (Wesya, overseers and minor aristocracy, Ksatria, nobles, kings and warriors and Bhramana, the highest caste comprising teachers, priests, writers and philosophers).

He painted many portraits of emerging new gentry, including Lady Rose MacDonnell of Antrim - "Johnson's art was best suited to the relative intimacy of the bust length portrait in which, with a certain detachment, he captured the reticence of the English landed gentry and minor aristocracy".