social register

Example Sentences

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The Sedgwick children’s grandmother, a Colony Club member so stratospherically snobbish that she found the Social Register vulgar and the Vanderbilts de trop, once bragged that her bare feet had never touched the ground.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022

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