HOW TO PRONOUNCE
noblesse
/noʊˈblɛs/
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What does noblesse mean?
noun
- The quality of being noble; nobleness.
- The nobility; peerage.
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IPA pronunciation
/noʊˈblɛs/
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In clothes of common sort Your courtiers must not grovel— Your new noblesse Must have a dress Original and novel!
There are the nobly proud, whose conception of "ought," of "noblesse oblige," makes them the real aristocrats of the race.
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The French have promised letters of noblesse to whoever fits out even a little privateer.
Then true noblesse would Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.
For the noblesse of that country is to have long nails, and to make them grow always to be as long as men may.