2007-01-09 02:44:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
When someone says, "She has such patrician bones!" it means she has high, well formed cheekbones and forehead, and a delicate jaw line.
2007-01-09 03:01:04 · answer #1 · answered by Mona H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word patrician is generally used to denote a member of the upper class, a person of refined upbringing and manners. And the term patrician bones refers to a refine bones structure of the face, free from coarseness.
2007-01-09 07:42:07 · answer #2 · answered by gospieler 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are a patrician, you are a member of the elite or ruling classes (derived from the word in usage in roman times). The opposite was a pleb, or plebian to give its full name - today we'd probably say hoi polloi or chav! A member of the proletariat. If you have patrician bones, then you are essentially upper/ruling class, even if you don't look like it from the outside....
2007-01-09 02:49:58 · answer #3 · answered by Miss Behavin 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Miss Behavin is quite right, except to add that it was a prejudice of the time that patricians had thinner, finer bones, unsuited to hard physical work. Funnily enough, if you don't do hard exercise your bones do indeed lose mass.
Cheers, Steve.
2007-01-09 02:57:02 · answer #4 · answered by Steve J 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they were of the ruling class
2007-01-09 09:28:26 · answer #5 · answered by A Teesside Smart**** 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋