rank-certainly

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At six, dinner was announced; and my host conducted me into a large salle a manger, where a very numerous company were assembled twenty-five or thirty in all. They were, apparently, people of rank-certainly of high breeding although their habiliments, I thought, were extravagantly rich, partaking somewhat too much of the ostentatious finery of the vielle cour.

Edgar Allan Poe - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4