grandees 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 grandees of sport and theatre are distressed.

2. Is corruption condoned by powerful grandees in government and business?

3. And corruption is condoned by powerful grandees in government and business.

4. This is doubtful: the electorate, being composed of ordinary people, is less impressionable than Tory grandees.

5. Children of an Infante or Infanta of Spain "shall have the consideration of Spanish Grandees", and the address of "Your Excellency".

6. That fateful night in the city of Babylon, Belshazzar held a banquet with a thousand of his grandees.

7. Many decades later, King Belshazzar holds a big feast for his grandees and disrespectfully uses vessels that were taken from Jehovah’s temple.

8. On the night of Cyrus’ surprise attack, Babylonian King Belshazzar was feasting with “a thousand of his grandees” when a hand miraculously appeared.

9. “As regards Belshazzar the king, he made a big feast for a thousand of his grandees, and in front of the thousand he was drinking wine.”

10. When Belshazzar saw that his trust in these religionists had been in vain, he became still more frightened, his complexion grew paler, and even his grandees were “perplexed.”

11. “AS REGARDS Belshazzar the king,” wrote the prophet Daniel, “he made a big feast for a thousand of his grandees, and in front of the thousand he was drinking wine.”

12. (Daniel 5:10-12) We can feel the hush that permeated the banqueting room as Daniel, in compliance with the request of King Belshazzar, proceeded to interpret those mystifying words to the emperor of the third world power of Bible history and his grandees.

13. T HE Bashaws, and other Grandees, as they passed by that Place in their return from Court, and knew, by its Trappings, that it was the Chiaux ’s Horse, eating his Hay under the Plane-Tree, they demanded the Reason, why he was not shut up in a Stable, as heretofore? He readily told them all the Matter; that as he shut us up, so he and his Horse were shut out, so that the one could not get