The romantic middle-class idea in the old days was that the true aristocrats, and not the jumped-up middle class, never truly knew who they were.
I'm glad you have met her, and seen so good a sample of a true aristocrat.
He carried himself like a true aristocrat and did not like to get excited".
The King called von Kloberg "a great friend of Africa and a true aristocrat."
Surely my nostrils aren't that thinly made, the true aristocrat.
Odd that she had never met him, considering how small a group the true aristocrats of Rome were.
She was beautiful, delicate and fair, with the true aristocrat's fragility that all fashionable city ladies strove to affect.
Chesterfield had the elephantine hide of a true aristocrat, and brushed off the criticisms as good natured, which they were not.
She had the flat face and high forehead of the true aristocrat.
"She was a true aristocrat, genteel even when elderly and frail."