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wellborn1
adjectivewellborn (not comparable)
- not comparableOf aristocratic or high-ranking birth
Of Scotch descent and wellborn, Thomas Scott had, as a boy, been a page at the French Court[…
1885, Annie Besant, Autobiographical Sketches1 more example
Morris said Chicago's transit system responds primarily to the needs of "the rich and the wellborn."
2001 July 13, Ann Sterzinger, “Road Rage”, in Chicago Reader
Wellborn2
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adjectiveof good or upper-class lineage
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