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socialite colloq. (orig. U.S.).|ˈsəʊʃəlaɪt|
[f. social a. and n. + -ite1.]
A person who is prominent in fashionable society; one who is fond of social activities and entertainments. Also attrib.
1928Time 31 Dec. 30/3 Splendorous as hostess & socialite was Princess Clara in both Germany and England. 1937D. B. Wyndham Lewis in L. Russell Press Gang! 249 Eric Daintee, wealthy lissom Mayfair filmamateur, socialite, dressdesigner, surrealist. 1938E. Lyons Assignment in Utopia ii. xiv. 226 The main body of amateur sociologists,..earnest probers, socialite thrill-hunters, and miscellaneous neurotics did not take possession [of Moscow] until the following years. 1944R. Manvell Film ii. vi. 139, I do not think a working girl should take her standards from a socialite. 1956J. C. Masterman Case of Four Friends vii. 125 A rather irresponsible bon viveur or socialite (as the young call them). 1960Harper's Bazaar July 19/1 Private citizens in the socialite belt even distribute matches bearing their own monograms. 1978J. Krantz Scruples iii. 79 At Vogue there are something like twenty-one editors of varying degrees of importance, including those stationed in Paris, Rome, and Madrid who are socialites first, editors second. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Sept. 1000/4 Although a professional naturalist.., he [sc. Victor Jacquemont] was by nature something of a dilettante and very much a socialite. |