patriciate
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To the Amsterdam patriciate the yearly visit of the Queen is a social function full of interest.
From Dutch Life in Town and Country by Hough, P. M.
The old municipal patriciate, which used to form the connecting link between the bourgeoisie and the nobility, had disappeared, and a feeling of common civic fellowship had taken its place.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
Gilbert Osmond had a high appreciation of this particular patriciate; not so much for its distinction, which he thought easily surpassable, as for its solid actuality.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by James, Henry
We have still to speak of the directly political functions of the rich, or, as M. Comte terms them, the patriciate.
From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart
Those who have borne it have belonged of right to the true patriciate of their Commonwealth.
From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston
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