social register

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Laffer is a tireless talker and raconteur who, in the course of an interview, can drop enough famous names to fill a social register.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2022

At times, Mosley’s testimony felt like a live reading of the social register.

From The Verge • Nov. 2, 2021

For a time, it produced a Supreme magazine, featuring the likes of Chloë Sevigny and Ryan McGinley as models, that functioned as a social register of sorts for the downtown art set.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2012

As feudal barons clung to their castles and patents of nobility, so the elect of Manhattan's social register cling to the boxes of the Metropolitan.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was from some committee which had a big W.S.S. lable printed at the top and a piece out of the social register printed underneath, and was dated N. Y. It begun more personal.

From Believe You Me! by Putnam, Nina Wilcox