person of fashion
Example Sentences
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“As a person of fashion, will it bother you if you have to wear orange?” somebody asked.
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2019
I must now pass over about three weeks, during which I became very intimate with the Major and Mr Harcourt, and was introduced by them to the clubs, and almost every person of fashion.
From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick
When the appendages to a Dramatic Performance are not assigned to a friend, or an unknown hand, or a person of fashion, they are always supposed to be written by the author of the Play.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
If this question were put to the ordinary person of fashion or leisure, how would it be answered?
From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider
She takes pleasure in being surrounded with duns, observing, that by such people a person of fashion is to be distinguished.
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)