bon ton

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But then, the bon ton, not content with padding only bums, moved the bustle round to the tummy at the front.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

Bullock's Wilshire, tony Los Angeles department store, went after war-workers' dollars; Macy's, New York's people's store, waved farewell to the bon ton trade.

From Time Magazine Archive

She founded the American Art Students' Club�now Reid Hall�made a place for herself in the capital's bon ton, no easy feat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The book reports Lucius' ad ventures with "butlered bon ton."

From Time Magazine Archive

Secret societies however are anything but forbidden under Dutch rule in Java,—on the contrary, it is rather bon ton to belong to some one of the lodges of freemasonry existent out there.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von