grandee in English

noun
1
a Spanish or Portuguese nobleman of the highest rank.
The atmospheric spot is decorated like a Spanish grandee 's mansion.

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1. The son of a postal clerk, he could not be considered a grandee.

2. The highest- ranking member of the Spanish aristocracy is the grandee.

3. Yesterday it also emerged that another City grandee had joined the team.

4. Nobleman, lord, peer, noble, aristocrat, patrician, grandee Yes, our friend the Baron has his problems

5. "I am incredibly surprised, " confides one Tory grandee, "by the degree to which he takes this stuff seriously."

6. He is a former defence secretary of the United States and a grandee of the Democratic Party.

7. Much of his downfall came from an over-zealous and extravagant interpretation of his role and duties as a landowner and grandee.

8. When the Moon is joined to Saturn in an Angle,[Sentencedict.com] the Native though a grandee will be reduced to poverty.

9. Du Cann's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire.

10. If you visit Taipei , whatever for business trip or just travel , Grandee Taipei Hotel near Shilin night market and MRT Jiantan Station is a good choice for staying.

11. ‘the haughty contempt of a grandee sneering at the Canaille’ ‘Brummell did the reverse, reinforcing exclusivism in the coming age of industry, teaching the upper classes to rely on cut to distinguish themselves from the Canaille.’

12. In August 2008, Doña Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia and three-time Grandee of Spain (branded the Red Duchess for her socialist activism), became the highest ranking Spanish noble to marry in an articulo mortis (deathbed) wedding to longtime companion Liliana Maria Dahlmann, now the Dowager Duchess of Medina Sidonia by right of her late wife.