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‖ haut ton|ho tɔ̃|
[F. = high tone, the manners of the higher circles of society. (Now little used in Eng.)]
High fashion; ellipt., people of high fashion.
1801Sporting Mag. XVII. 22 People of the Haut Ton are about to return to town. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 6 The gentlemen, who doze away their time in the circles of the haut-ton. a1849Poe Wks. (1884) I. 348 (Stanf.) An air of extreme haut ton. 1850Harper's Mag. I. 288 [It] has excited the attention of the haut ton abroad. |