social register
Example Sentences
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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
In the Philadelphia city directory are 132 Biddies, of whom 70 are in the local social register.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was at once a social register, containing the most minute and extensive data, and an index criminis, unabridged.
From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by J. V. McFall
