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well born adjectiveFrom a noble or wealthy family: if one were well born enough to ‘come out’ it was a disaster to finish the season unbetrothed...- A high-caste, well-born, English-educated lawyer had voluntarily chosen to give up power and position and live the life of an Indian peasant.
- It was also optimistic and in this way at least egalitarian, the moral sense and common sense being shared by all men and not merely the educated and well-born.
- What does come through, not altogether attractively, is a steely determination in these well-born girls to stick with their own kind.
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