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smart set
smart setn. Fashionable people considered as a group.smart set n (functioning as singular or plural) fashionable sophisticated people considered as a group Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  smart set - the fashionable elite beau monde, bon ton, high society, societyFour Hundred - the exclusive social set of a cityelite, elite group - a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status |
smart set
the smart setHip, fashionable, well-educated socialites. Our campaign has been co-opted by the smart set, and I think our original message is getting lost as a result. Our aim is to bring local restaurants and businesses to the attention of the smart set. His films are always looked down on by the smart set, but they always make a ton of money at the box office.See also: set, smartsmart setA fashionable social group, as in This restaurant has been discovered by the smart set. This idiom may be obsolescent. [Late 1800s] See also: set, smartsmart setThe fashionable socially elite. A late-nineteenth-century term on both sides of the Atlantic, it was sometimes used more for the flashy nouveau riche, as by Ward McAllister: “Behind what I call the ‘smart set’ in society, there always stood the old, solid, substantial, respected people” (Society As I Have Found It, 1890). In the mid-1900s it was largely replaced by jet set, and then by beautiful people.See also: set, smartsmart set
Synonyms for smart setnoun the fashionable eliteSynonyms- beau monde
- bon ton
- high society
- society
Related Words- Four Hundred
- elite
- elite group
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