cultured class

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Besides, how did it happen that she was so at home in this house of well-to-do people, and so familiar with this man of a cultured class?

From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by Miller, John Maurice

You might kennel a pack of hounds there, or beat a carpet, or assemble those members of the cultured class who admire Mr. Gladstone.

From About Orchids A Chat by Boyle, Frederick

The nobles, on the other hand, and all the cultured class, are fermenting with great views and plans of social reform.

From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

America, unlike England, has no recognized cultured class, and has no aristocracy, so called, with which to keep mere rich men suitably miserable—at least a little humble and wistful.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley

The women of what are now France and England clothed themselves at that time in the same manner as the cultured class of Rome.

From Woman as Decoration by Burbank, Emily