Fifty-seventh Street may be the bastion of aristocratic taste, but it also has its showy side.

These completely fill the chancel and offer a fascinating view of changing aristocratic taste in the 16th and 17th centuries.

And because such examples of concentrated mastery tend to look expensive and to connote aristocratic taste, they become advertisements for their owners' power.

Messalina certainly has aristocratic tastes.

He was seen to be attacking the moral, manly roots of English public life with the aid of effeminate, aristocratic tastes.

Yourcenar is a writer of markedly aristocratic tastes).

The French Revolution (1789-1799) produced a French middle class which rejected aristocratic tastes and values.

Drawing on rural traditional folk music, ranchera developed as a symbol of a new national consciousness in reaction to the aristocratic tastes of the period.

Conservatives would argue that refined aristocratic taste had been overrun by vulgar bourgeois love of spectacle.

The jobs on offer cleaning, gardening, helping in the kitchen or the tailoring workshop seem unlikely to appeal to his aristocratic tastes.