social register
Example Sentences
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Mr. Hastings said that his mother was a Boston debutante from a Social Register family who married a lawyer who later worked in the Nixon administration.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2020
The Trumps will also get a place in the Washington Social Register, also known as The Green Book.
From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2016
The guest list was a global Social Register, from Auchincloss to Guinness to Rothschild.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2015
For those who were not of the highly respected “old money,” but only recently obtained their riches through business ventures, the relief they sought came in the form of one book—the annual Social Register.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
They are very good at creating a self-enclosed world where the criterion for admission is not the Social Register, but money.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
