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
All the adjectives in the social register were exhausted by the daily papers in describing Mrs. Festus Willard's dance.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
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