social register

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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

Federal investigators have cracked open another huge insider-trading scandal, and this time they have implicated some of the most prominent names in America's social register.

From Time Magazine Archive

You will search for them in vain through the social register or the births, marriages, and deaths, or the grocer's credit list.

From Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)