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Recent Examples of highborn Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one-man shows, and his potent doses of humor and hard truth enthralled both the highborn and the humble. Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025 Long shamed for being both mixed-race and illegitimate, Dieudonné needs a highborn bride to prove his worth in the court of Louis XVI. Olivia Waite, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 Sawai starred as Toda Mariko, a highborn woman with an important role to play in a brewing civil war among Japan’s ruling council of regents. Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024 Along a road lined with thousands of pagan graves and the multilayered catacombs of the Christians, the Gothic army traveled after the three-day sack, leading wagons bulging with loot and a contingent of highborn Roman hostages, of whom by far the most valuable was the 20-year-old Placidia. Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023 The banking dynasty’s founder, Mayer Amschel Rothschild of Frankfurt, a Jewish dealer in rare coins, began making loans and cultivating a highborn clientele in the 18th century. James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022 But unlike the sinisterly driven and chaste Eve—played by the highborn Anne Baxter, granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright—Miss Caswell uses her body to get ahead, providing a foil for the successful antihero. Sophie Lewis, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022 Live, Love, Laugh, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex AVAILABLE ITEMS PRINCELY AF sweatshirt (£80): Sharpie on a Champion-brand hooded sweatshirt—the perfect blend of highborn-lowbrow! Emily Flake, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2020
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Adjective
  • When Coverley and the girls returned to England, in 1969, Lucian arranged for Bella to spend time with some aristocratic hippies who travelled around southern England in caravans.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • While its aristocratic history may be a thing of the past, the hotel (along with its grounds) does still exude the stately, elegant aura of a noble mansion.
    Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Tucked into the whispering meadows of the Netherlands, Hof van Saksen is a majestic eco-resort—a former noble estate reborn as a family-first urban oasis spanning over 160 lush acres.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The affection Agnes holds for her children and the anger aimed at her husband, not to mention a world cruel enough to rob her of a child, are both tuned with precision to crack your noble heart.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Highborn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highborn. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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