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

All comers without regard to race, religion or record in the social register were lined up in a big queue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Copies will be mailed to everybody in the social register, and especially to Mrs. George Deaves.

From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert