high-born in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The child was illegitimate, and she is of high-born, perhaps noble, birth.
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These fans are particularly well displayed in the portraits of the high-born women of the era.
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They tend to be shorter than their high-born brethren and less muscular, but are among the most agile.
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Thus do high-born aristocrats long to play the low-born rebel.
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A small company of friends of the viscountess (young and high-born ladies) was formed around the couch of the saint.
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The high-born lad was in for a thrashing.
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That, in turn, suggests she was a member of a high-born family or at least lived in such a household for much of her life.
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He was referring to the high-born and the low-born meeting the same end: death.
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A soldier's mistresseven a high-born soldier's mistressis despised as a sheath, or camp follower.
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She is clearly educated after the proper fashion of the high-born sentiments.
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