leisured class
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A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here are the best shops, the banks, and those elegant and ostentatious casinos, where the aristocracy and leisured class lounge and smoke, and survey at their ease the unceasing procession of passers by.
From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
They are indeed the only leisured class in the country, the only large body of persons who are not called upon to win their daily bread in direct, wage-earning ways.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
The leisured class thus became the starving class, and the King's annual subsidies alone kept these families from destitution.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
