Hypertext Webster Gateway: "noblesse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nobless \No*bless"\, Noblesse \No*blesse"\ (?; 277), n. [F.
noblesse. See {Noble}.]
1. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [Obs.]
--Chaucer. Spenser. B. Jonson.
2. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively,
including males and females. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
noblesse
n 1: the state of being of noble birth [syn: {nobility}]
2: members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility)
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