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

And for the wealthy, immersion in arts and culture, as well as inclusion in the Social Register, allowed them to socialize exclusively with those they felt were of the same social status.

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