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What (who) is noblesse - definition

FORM OF SCOTTISH NOBILITY
Scottish nobility; Scottish upper class

Noblesse         
·noun Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.
II. Noblesse ·noun The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.
noblesse         
n.
[Fr.] Aristocracy, nobility.
noblesse         
[n??'bl?s]
¦ noun the nobility of a foreign country.
Phrases
noblesse oblige ?'bli:? privilege entails responsibility.
Origin
Fr., lit. 'nobility'.

Wikipedia

Noblesse

The concept of the Scottish Noblesse, a class of nobles of either peerage or non-peerage rank, was prominently advocated for by Sir Thomas Innes of Learney during his tenure as an officer of arms. Innes of Learney believed that Scottish armigers, those individuals granted arms by the Court of the Lord Lyon, implicitly become 'Nobles in the Noblesse of Scotland': a form of hereditary nobility. The soundness of the basis for this belief is uncertain, and included drawing on historical English practice, and the belief that, because other officers of the Crown had been delegated the power to ennoble historically, the Lord Lyon should be able to as well. Despite relying heavily on historical documentation in England, he simultaneously also opposed the application of English heraldic practice and law as it related to heraldry in Scotland.

In 2018, the Lord Lyon quietly dropped the so-called nobility clause from newly issued Letters Patent.

Examples of use of noblesse
1. Noblesse oblige ... Let no one deny Prince Harry‘s courage.
2. A bit of noblesse oblige might not have gone amiss.
3. "I don‘t remember my parents ever giving us a noblesse oblige speech," he said.
4. Was he planting campaign seeds, despite himself, or was he simply exercising a little noblesse oblige?
5. The prince, he gleaned, invented the concept of noblesse oblige before he had whiskers.