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Old money   /oʊld mˈəni/   Listen
Old money

noun
1.
The inherited wealth of established upper-class families.  Synonym: silver spoon.  "She is the daughter of old money from Massachusetts"





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"Old money" Quotes from Famous Books



... remorse—to proclaim his relations with his landlady and commercial partner, the shopkeeper's wife, before all their acquaintances, at one of her entertainments—and also to announce himself as the murderer of the old money-lender. Nor is it the guilty sense of Raskolnikov that impels this moujik to confession and reparation. It is his repugnance for the men in contrast with whom he stands out as an ...
— Maxim Gorki • Hans Ostwald


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