social register
Example Sentences
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The Sedgwick children’s grandmother, a Colony Club member so stratospherically snobbish that she found the Social Register vulgar and the Vanderbilts de trop, once bragged that her bare feet had never touched the ground.
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022
The Trumps will also get a place in the Washington Social Register, also known as The Green Book.
From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2016
The guest list was a global Social Register, from Auchincloss to Guinness to Rothschild.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2015
And for the wealthy, immersion in arts and culture, as well as inclusion in the Social Register, allowed them to socialize exclusively with those they felt were of the same social status.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
They are very good at creating a self-enclosed world where the criterion for admission is not the Social Register, but money.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
