social register
Example Sentences
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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
By 1929, with a list of steady customers that looked like a distillation of the social register, the com-pany was grossing some $5,000,000 a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nobody outside of the social register knew the true state of affairs in the house of Leroy Mortimer—which, after all, was all anybody cared about.
From The Fighting Chance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
