资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.