poshness

Example Sentences

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The Grand Ferdinand in Vienna promotes poshness with its heated rooftop pool.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023

But there was Mr. Rees-Mogg, nicknamed “the honorable gentleman from the 18th century” for his old-world tics and antiquarian poshness, looking like a Degas model, with his willowy frame and long, angular face.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2019

Six million people had watched the “Absolutely Fabulous” star diffuse English poshness into the Arctic mists as she travelled northward through Norway.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Affable and solicitous, with brains, poshness and an ego worn lightly, he is a foreigner’s idealised Englishman.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2017

Today, its red-brick row houses and elegant shops and restaurants rival the historic Back Bay for poshness.

From Time Magazine Archive