#cultural refinement

• Aristocratize — To infuse a noble or aristocratic character into a person, a social group, or a cultural environment; to adopt or impose manners, titles, privileges, and a refined lifestyle specific to noble elites. As a reflexive verb, it describes the process by which a community or a person (often from the bourgeoisie) alters their behavior and mindset to mimic the aristocratic class and gain social prestige.
• Aristocratized — Having been transformed in an aristocratic manner or having acquired traits specific to the aristocracy; a social, cultural, or aesthetic process through which a person, social class, environment, or institution adopts the manners, lifestyle, exclusivism, or refinement standards of the nobility. In a sociological sense, it describes the alteration of an entity's popular or common character in favor of an elitist conduct.