person of fashion

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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

And take Mr. Lucre, or any other person of fashion that may call, to my clerks.

From Next Door Neighbours A Comedy in Three Acts by Inchbald, Mrs.

She was evidently a fine dame, a person of fashion in this Saharan capital.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James

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 Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

Lady Griskin is a person of fashion, to whom we have the honour to be related.

From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, T. (Tobias)