hidalgo

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Recent Examples of hidalgo Guy Montag burned libraries in Fahrenheit 451, and Don Quixote’s priest and barber burned the romances that turned the hidalgo mad. Justin Beal, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hidalgo
Noun
  • Gianfranco was every inch the grand seigneur but without the pretense.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Patriots have lost five of six to Bills uber-QB Josh Allen, the reigning signal-caller seigneur of the AFC East.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • In 2021, Gaydos was named a chevalier/knight by France’s Ministry of Culture in recognition of his long career in entertainment.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 Feb. 2025
  • But the trouble with chivalry is that the chevalier decides what is best for the lady without consulting her.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The oldest in the region is the Half Way House in Chesterfield, of course, which has been serving Founding Fathers, Civil War generals and at least one French marquis since 1760.
    Karri Peifer, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Queen Charlotte presents Francesca with a marquis from Vienna.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 May 2024
Noun
  • The lights dim, and a hush falls over the crowd, as the last nawab of Oudh strides onto the stage at Palo Alto’s Cubberley Theater.
    Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The Oudh descendants in Kolkata, where the nawab died in exile, had also rejected their claim.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
Noun
  • Attendees included sheikhs and the CEO of the Raffles Family Office, Chi-man Kwan.
    Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Landi also used his time in Dubai to consult for a start-up run by an Emirati sheikh.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Nattering nabobs of non-mainstream media might call it assault by beverage.
    Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 2024
Noun
  • When Bezos acquired The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, its value to the tech baron was largely reputational.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
  • While the Rubiales trial took 18 months to be investigated and tried, the regional barons who have long dominated the federation successfully headed off the government’s talk of electoral reform.
    Dermot Corrigan, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For the show, the duo built an office space embedded with silicone paintings full of chivalric symbols: the mirror, the castle, the knight, the enchanted woods.
    Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The most impressive space, though, might be the armory, which features 18th-century ceiling frescoes and displays armor worn by medieval knights and their horses.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025

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“Hidalgo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hidalgo. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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