The word "patrician" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe someone of a high social rank or of noble birth. Example: The patrician prince was revered by his social circle.
I had remembered him as patrician, remote, supercilious, but Jane had seen more.
Instead he is sitting, on a banquette at the Tavern on the Green in New York's Central Park, ever the silver-haired east coast patrician, wearing lightly stained chef's whites.
In July , 1965 Heath was the first Conservative leader to be chosen by secret ballot of MPs, the election having broken with the patrician system by which his predecessor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, had "emerged" as leader in 1963.
If this disturbed upbringing bred a capacity for accommodating to events, it often served him well, but it sometimes made his behaviour hard to predict.Mr Mandela was, for example, a patrician, almost aloof young man.
He is a patrician in his manner and dress.
Mr Cameron's advantages on leadership are strictly relative the well-heeled Tory leader, a patrician figure in a time of anti-establishment sentiment, is respected, but not loved, as the unexcited reception he received while campaigning seemed to confirm.
But no one was better than she at delivering their witty lines in her husky patrician voice.She was an original, part of a pantheon whose members can be identified by single names, Garbo, Dietrich, Monroe, and among the men, Gable, Bogart and Chaplin, stars whose glitter has survived the generations.
A middle class that has grown largely to tend to the state will behave differently from one that is based on the private sector.The one-third ruleBut who, as a patrician British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, once loftily asked, are these middle classes?
Soon spotted by Mr Ecevit, during one of his spells as prime minister in the 1970s, Mr Cem at 34 became the youngest director of Turkish radio and television, at a time when the state had a monopoly of broadcasting.This brainily patrician background did not seem to mark Mr Cem out as a natural vote-winner among ordinary Turks.
Gorgeous manuscripts with arcane symbols, wise old monastic teachers and marauders at the gate (Vikings, in this case) are enjoyably combined in this Franco-Belgo-Irish collaboration.Then recall the languid, patrician tones of Lord Clark, holding forth on the subject of civilisation: a fond memory for many a middle-aged art historian.
As the older Mr Bush's negative rating topped 40 points, twice that of his opponent, the reluctant patrician took the decision to go negative.
