highbred

Adjective

highbred (comparative more highbred, superlative most highbred)

1. Of high-quality stock.
   • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is the story of a highbred horse that leads a tough life in London pulling cabs.
2. Showing good breeding and refined manners.
   • So, taking up their stand on the flagging outside the entrance of the big store, the bare-headed Angel, in her worn gingham frock, highbred and beautiful as a little princess, despite it, struck up with as much effect as a bird's twitter might make.1897, George Madden Martin, The Angel of the Tenement
   • But I should like to turn the tables on these persons, and suggest that all this worrying about whether life is or is not worth living, and hunting for answers for and against, may itself be an excuse, unconscious like all the most mischievous excuses, and hide not finer demands and highbred...1903, Violet Paget, AKA Vernon Lee, Hortus Vitae