societe

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The U.S. parent firm uses a corporate structure known as the "societe en commandite par actions," or SCA.

From Reuters • Feb. 2, 2015

There was no more, for poems in the best Japanese classic style of vers de societe are always short, frequently epigram matic.

From Time Magazine Archive

All of Mr. Tarkington's little episodes are light, cleverly told�prose de societe.

From Time Magazine Archive

"At Sea", a witty bit of vers de societe by Henry Cleveland Wood, forms an appropriately graceful conclusion to a richly enjoyable issue of the magazine.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

J'etais recu dans la meilleure societe de Petersburg; I might have aspired to any girl in the city.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich