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noblesse


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nobless  \No*bless"\,  Noblesse  \No*blesse"\  (?;  277),  n.  [F. 
  noblesse.  See  {Noble}.] 
  1.  Dignity;  greatness;  noble  birth  or  condition.  [Obs.] 
  --Chaucer.  Spenser.  B.  Jonson 
 
  2.  The  nobility;  persons  of  noble  rank  collectively, 
  including  males  and  females.  --Dryden. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  noblesse 
  n  1:  the  state  of  being  of  noble  birth  [syn:  {nobility}] 
  2:  members  of  the  nobility  (especially  of  the  French  nobility) 




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