four hundred

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Under Solon’s new laws, each of Athens’s four traditional tribes chose one hundred of its members by lot, including commoners, to sit in the new Council of Four Hundred and run the government.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Rich people — and there were supposedly only Four Hundred of them — gathered in Mrs. Astor’s ballroom.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2019

Or at the very least as rigorous an exclusion from glory as that which formerly marked the difference between Mrs. Astor’s Four Hundred and the rest of the human race.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2014

The enormous gold watch fob Samuel Ward McAllister, the self-appointed gatekeeper of the Four Hundred, sports in his 1877 portrait by Adolphe Yvon is set off by his sober black bespoke suit.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2014

But on Wednesday Morning there was a fresh Alarm, occasioned by a false Report, that Four Hundred of the same People were on their March to Attack the Town.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis