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Answer for the clue "Spanish noble ", 7 letters:
hidalgo

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Population (2000): 123 Housing Units (2000): 62 Land area (2000): 0.343399 sq. miles (0.889399 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.343399 sq. miles (0.889399 sq. km) FIPS code: 34553 Located within: Illinois ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Spanish nobleman of secondary rank," 1590s, from Spanish hidalgo , from Old Spanish fidalgo , shortened from filho de algo "son (Latin filus) of someone (Latin aliquis )," perhaps an imitation of Arabic ibn-nas "son of people," a complimentary title. For ...

Usage examples of hidalgo.

Cameron and Willacy counties on the Gulf through Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Webb, Dimmit, Zavala, and Maverick, the American citizens of Mexican ancestry have, through the exercise of their right to vote, taken control of county functions: school boards, zoning, police and fire protection, road departments, library services, county welfare, and all the other boards and commissions which spring full grown from the over-fertilized minds of the political animals.

Here all along the valley from Cameron and Willacy counties on the Gulf through Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Webb, Dimmit, Zavala, and Maverick, the American citizens of Mexican ancestry have, through the exercise of their right to vote, taken control of county functions: school boards, zoning, police and fire protection, road departments, library services, county welfare, and all the other boards and commissions which spring full grown from the over-fertilized minds of the political animals.

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He knew that a de la Vega, an hidalgo, a man of honor and lineage, could never dream of living his life with a mestiza woman.

The pharmacist told me that Hidalgo del Parral had no American medics, but that one had set up a small practice in San Francisco del Oro about fifteen miles away.

Evidently he had had a practice in Oregon for a number of years, but both his sons had started up a manufacturing business in Hidalgo del Parral a few years back, and when his wife died a year ago he had moved down here to be near them.

Hidalgo del Parrel before my arms and side started throbbing so much that I thought I was going to pass out.

You were predefined by your ancestors: by their class or either an hidalgo or a pechero, and by their caste as either an Old or a New Christian.

Unlike not a few of his peers, Don Guillermo did not really like witnessing whippings or maimings or torture, but recognized and accepted that such were the only proven ways to maintain discipline among the commoner sorts and the slaves, so he steeled himself and observed those punishments he had ordered as sternly and blankfacedly as a hidalgo knight should.

There are few enough of us genuine hidalgos de Castilla hereabouts, amongst this rabble of Catalonians and Basque sheep-fuckers.

I, who am Nakuk Pech, of the first hidalgos conquistadores here in this land in the district Maxtunil, I am placed in the first town in the district Chac Xulub Chen.

Right now, Treat was checking things for Senora Hidalgo and Claxon, both of whom wished they were back in Colombia and would soon be part way there.

Then Treat turned and introduced Claxon, the old servitor who was slated for a trip to Havana with Senora Hidalgo, the duenna.

Only a stoop-shouldered old servant, Claxon, and a squatty lady, Senora Hidalgo, came from the big door and down the steps to the waiting car.

You shipped Claxon and Senora Hidalgo, thus getting everyone away who could possibly identify Brenda Van Dolphe.