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upper-middlebrow, n. (a.)
[upper a. 8 b.]
One whose cultural interests lie between those of the middlebrow and those of the highbrow. Also attrib. or as adj.
1956R. Conquest New Lines p. xiv, A sort of upper⁓middle-brow equivalent of the horror-comic. 1959Economist 28 Feb. 787/1 Magazines for upper middle⁓brows. 1974Country Life 14 Mar. 588/2 The middle to⁓upper-middle brow range that Chichester programmes now generally encompass. 1977Listener 11 Aug. 170/1 In Life magazine, nearly 30 years ago, an American critic said: What culture and civilized living we have today is provided by the interaction of..the aesthetic radical highbrow and the somewhat more conservative upper⁓middlebrows. |