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

Is ZAT So?—Uppercuts and lorgnets in a comedy of how the prize ring came to the social register.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, there is the social register and the club lists and all that—" "And many, many sources of information which are necessary in such a business as this, Mr. Gatewood.

From The Tracer of Lost Persons by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)