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
Is ZAT So?—Uppercuts and lorgnets in a comedy of how the prize ring came to the 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 F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
