hidalgo

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Recent Examples of hidalgo Guy Montag burned libraries in Fahrenheit 451, and Don Quixote’s priest and barber burned the romances that turned the hidalgo mad. Justin Beal, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2021
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Noun
  • Gianfranco was every inch the grand seigneur but without the pretense.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Patriots have lost five of six to Bills uber-QB Josh Allen, the reigning signal-caller seigneur of the AFC East.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • For the chevalier’s apartment in Paris, where much of the movie is filmed, Murphy visited the Hotel le Peletier, a Baroque mansion in Paris, and the Château de Maisons-Laffitte in the suburbs of Paris.
    Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 26 Apr. 2023
  • He was made a chevalier in the French Order of Arts and Letters in 1986, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988 and was elevated in 2001 to a Companion of Honor, a British distinction limited to 65 living people.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • The oldest in the region is the Half Way House in Chesterfield, of course, which has been serving Founding Fathers, Civil War generals and at least one French marquis since 1760.
    Karri Peifer, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Queen Charlotte presents Francesca with a marquis from Vienna.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 May 2024
Noun
  • The Oudh descendants in Kolkata, where the nawab died in exile, had also rejected their claim.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
  • In 1757, the East India Company commander Robert Clive defeated Bengal’s local ruler, or nawab, in battle and consolidated the company’s power in the province.
    Maya Jasanoff, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
Noun
  • One sheikh recently signed a deal to lease a vast swatch of Tanzania’s forests – totaling 8% of the country’s land – for a carbon offset business.
    Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Mubarak tried to bring mosques and sheikhs in hand by requiring them to obtain licenses issued by the state.
    Geneive Abdo, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2020
Noun
  • Nattering nabobs of non-mainstream media might call it assault by beverage.
    Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 2024
  • The Gold Coast once held the highest concentrations of American wealth, and today, the area remains an upscale part of Long Island, with many of those centuries-old homes of Gilded Age nabobs still intact.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Shows like Dallas and Blood and Oil have capitalized on the industry’s dramatic potential, focusing on wealthy oil barons, family empires, corporate warfare, and scandalous backstabbing.
    Jay R. Young, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But in 2018, Cuomo, envisioning a massive deal with the neighborhood’s dominant real estate baron, Vornado, pushed the Legislature to strip the city of its zoning power in the blocks around Penn.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Hans Trapp Origin: Alsace-Lorraine region of France Hans Trapp, also known as the Christmas Scarecrow, was derived from the real story of a knight named Hans von Trotha.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • O’Grady hopes a return to performance — with a new character, a knight named Lancela — will help illuminate her previous work.
    Jillian Steinhauer, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024

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