| 单词 | high society |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh society high society n. people who are fashionable, wealthy, and influential, regarded as forming a distinct group in a community. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] higheOE high life?a1518 towna1616 world1618 grand monde1673 society1693 beau monde1712 fine world1740 monde1765 tonc1770 high society1782 fashion1807 all the world1808 society1840 smart set1851 swelldom1854 Fifth Avenue1858 fashionabledom1859 haut monde1864 the big cheesea1910 higlif1911 haute Bohème1925 café society1937 jet set1949 beautiful people1950 1782 D. O'Bryen Def. Earl Shelburne 9 He esteems the ease and politeness inseparable from a man in the habits of high society, as sufficient, without resorting to any artificial means of creating notice, or impressing regard. 1796 Weekly Entertainer 25 July 69 The small allowance his father could afford him falling very short of the expences high society led him into. 1818 Brit. Rev. Feb. 52 It is difficult..to represent with accuracy any part of life with which we are not personally conversant; and Miss Edgeworth has, we believe, this advantage in drawing her portraitures of what is called high society. 1891 Law Times 91 21/2 It is ridiculous that grave disputes..should be kept waiting while the dirty linen of high society is..washed in public. 1920 D. Parker et al. (title) High society. Advice as to Social Campaigning,and Hints on the Management of Dowagers, Dinners, Debutantes, Dances,and the Thousand and One Diversions of Persons of Quality. 1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird xi. 155 The police..would spoil the leisurely high-society image. Dirty little men running over the Begum's nice holiday island. 2010 New Yorker 11 Oct. 16/3 Lee Hall's play depicts the group's formation.., neither patronizing its working-class heroes nor over-satirizing the high society that embraced them. < as lemmas |
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