Aristocʹracy
.The cold shade of the aristocracy—i.e. the unsympathising patronage of the great. The expression first occurs in Sir W. F. P. Napier’s History of the Peninsular War.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.