Both Uses of
patrician
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Had kind fate but willed her to be born a gentlewoman of high degree in her own right and had she only received the benefit of a good education Gerty MacDowell might easily have held her own beside any lady in the land and have seen herself exquisitely gowned with jewels on her brow and patrician suitors at her feet vying with one another to pay their devoirs to her.†
Chpt 13
- BIDDY THE CLAP: One immediately observes that he is of patrician lineage.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(patrician) a person belonging to the nobility or aristocracy -- sometimes specifically of ancient Rome