贵族[阶级]
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.
noblesse
n 1: the state of being of noble birth [syn: {nobility}]
2: members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility)