The word "highborn" is usable in written English and is well written.
It is typically used to describe someone of noble or aristocratic birth. Example: "She was a highborn lady, accustomed to the privileges of her status." Alternatives include "noble" or "aristocratic."
Bishops had traditionally governed their dioceses more or less independently, and the changes introduced and systematized by Gregory VII were most unwelcome among all ranks of the clergy, including the highborn bishops, especially in Germany.
The plot of Double Falsehood centring on two young women, one of whom is highborn and the other of lowly origins, together with two men who are contrastingly honourable and villainous is the stuff out of which many a tragicomic play might have been written in the 17th and 18th centuries.
It demonstrated that tragedy need not be limited to the highborn, as Gottsched had maintained in his interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics.
It was a fashionable philosophy, appealing to learned gentlemen and highborn ladies alike, and it was one of the few philosophical alternatives to the Scholasticism still being taught in the universities.
Particularly evident are parallels made between the moral degeneracy of the opera's protagonists and contemporary highborn society.
Silk was not forbidden to women; and highborn women, forced to spend their lives in seclusion, devoted much time and money to their costumes.
Don Quixote perceives Dulcinea as a golden-haired highborn young woman of incomparable loveliness for whom he will perform brave deeds as her paladin.
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) featured real-life couple Curtis and Janet Leigh as a medieval knight and his highborn lady.
A favourite of highborn gamblers throughout Europe well into the 19th century, faro was the game at which the young Count Rostov, in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, lost a fortune.
In his view (and this remained prevalent in the West) the highborn should learn to play as an accomplishment but not professionally.
At the top, Bran - the highborn son of Sean Bean's Ned Stark, the Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North - found Cersei and her brother-lover Jaime in the act.
