The phrase "aristocratic elite" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a small, exclusive group of people who are from wealthy, influential, or noble families. Example: The social event was attended by the aristocratic elite of the city, all dressed in luxurious gowns and suits, exuding an air of refined elegance.
A profession that had traditionally served an aristocratic elite would now raise up the masses.
"But for some reason I didn't then ask the obvious question as to what was going on in the political and aristocratic elite.
Never mind the evidence of drunken, vaguely twittish figures with bowl haircuts: bring on the anarchic toffs bent on wresting power on behalf of a secretive aristocratic elite.
Back in the 1950s, before Breakfast, the fashion system was basically a couture industry that supplied hand-made garments for the social and aristocratic elite.
Thus, stories such as the Märchen ("tales") collected by the Grimm brothers in Germany are folktales because they were told by the people rather than by an aristocratic elite.
Different as these two periods were -- one dominated by a highly cultured aristocratic elite, the other by pragmatic military provincials -- they were characterized by a turning away from China and the blossoming of cultural independence.
Did aristocratic elites always use their leisure well?
Religious and aristocratic elites first tried to stop, then control, then co-opt the new medium.
This was a war undertaken (largely) by the old aristocratic elites; they were swept away in 1917 and 1918 for their incompetence.
And again, the urban middle-classes and the business, military and aristocratic elites used to running Thailand as their private show might balk.
The Qin simply went much further, assaulting every section of society in its remorseless attempt to establish a form of protototalitarian dictatorship.The Qin's extremism was also its undoing and it was soon replaced by the more enduring Han dynasty, which sought compromise with aristocratic elites and legitimation through a revived Confucianism.
