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- noun Plural form of
nobleman .
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Examples
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The Mayan dish papadzules, made with pumpkin seeds and meaning "food for noblemen" is still a favorite in Yucatecan restaurants.
The Pumpkin, An Ancient Mexican Native: La Calabaza Grande 2003
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The Mayan dish papadzules, made with pumpkin seeds and meaning "food for noblemen" is still a favorite in Yucatecan restaurants.
The Pumpkin, An Ancient Mexican Native: La Calabaza Grande 2003
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The Mayan dish papadzules, made with pumpkin seeds and meaning "food for noblemen" is still a favorite in Yucatecan restaurants.
The Pumpkin, An Ancient Mexican Native: La Calabaza Grande 2003
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They had very long hair which hung over their foreheads; their faces were white and clean, and they seemed rather like maids serving in noblemen's families.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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Certain English noblemen had in the late treaty (see p. 231) been promised restoration of the estates of their ancestors in Scotland, and in = 1332 = some of them, finding the promise unfulfilled, offered English forces to John
A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865
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Certain Italian noblemen of the fifteenth century?’
Spotted Hemlock Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1958
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Standing beside the noblemen were the obligators — regular ones in gray, Inquisitors in black.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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Moreover, the rich already possess the external advantages the want of which is a temptation to crime, and hence they are called noblemen and gentlemen.
Politics Aristotle 2002
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Former so-called noblemen tenderly remember the good old times when they could cheerfully kick a peasant in the pants.
Labor, Labor Movement and Music Speech by Hanns Eisler, 1938 1938
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It had long been customary to name noblemen as governors of the various provinces, but the governors had gradually become masters instead of administrators: they commanded detachments of the army; they claimed allegiance of the garrisons in their towns; they repeatedly and openly defied the royal will.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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