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Smart set   /smɑrt sɛt/   Listen
Smart set

noun
1.
The fashionable elite.  Synonyms: beau monde, bon ton, high society, society.






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"Smart set" Quotes from Famous Books



... been less aristocratic of family and stronger of brawn he would have beaten Trudy if she displeased him. As it was, after the first flush of romance passed, he began to sneer at her in private when she made mistakes in the ways of the smart set into which Gaylord had been born, and when she protested he only sneered the louder. He felt Trudy should be eternally grateful to him. Trudy found herself bewildered, hurt—yet unable to combat his contemptible little ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley

... are charming. Notice the picturesque 'furnished apartments' for paying guests all along the water-side, and the mixed bathing establishments, crowded daily by the Smart Set, whose jewelled pyjamas flash in rivalry of the heliographic oil-tins which deck ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne



Words linked to "Smart set" :   four hundred, elite group, elite



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