hochwohlgeboren

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German hochwohlgeboren

Adjective

hochwohlgeboren (comparative more hochwohlgeboren, superlative most hochwohlgeboren)

  1. High-born; aristocratic, of noble birth.
    • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 484:
      But here we all were, being hochwohlgeboren in the passage.
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