0 a member of the aristocracy -- aristokrat, šlechtic
High positions in the government were once restricted to aristocrats.
It consisted of aristocrats with recent titles, who rose from the very ranks of the municipal elite.
However, their closest collaborators remained and have acted as surrogate aristocrats.
It is aptly described as a ' bourgeois revolution ' since only a few citizen bishops were blueblooded, whereas their predecessors were aristocrats almost to a man.
Leopold feels socially inadequate in the company of aristocrats.
Together with the courtiers and aristocrats, new consumers included the well-to-do gentry and merchants who tried to imitate the lifestyles of the social elite.
The old aristocrats had some secrets, or amabanga, as well.
Manufacturing capitalism has everywhere "been recruited from the higher strata of artisans and from aristocrats who had turned bourgeois" (p. 157).
The wealth of the regidores also re-ected these changes; apart from a handful of opulent aristocrats, the majority possessed more modest means than their ancestors.
