Definition of "hidalgos" [hidalgos]

• Plural form of hidalgo. (noun)

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• "_regidores_ or _regulators_, who were chosen in varying proportions from the "hidalgos" or nobles (_hijos de algo_, sons of somebody) and the"
• "The aspiration of every middle-class merchant was to make it into the ranks of the hidalgos, a lower classification of Spanish nobility that did not pay taxes."
• "He assembles a diverse cast of Spanish hidalgos, German adventurers, Indians, hunchbacks and suspected sodomites."