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
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
He was at once a social register, containing the most minute and extensive data, and an index criminis, unabridged.
From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by McFall, J. V.
