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1914 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 31 Aug. 4/3 No progressive merchant can afford to overlook the locally well advertised, nationally known prestige product.

1949 L. P. Hartley Boat xi. 156 If only they could all put off their company manners and change into their old clothes! But no; this was a prestige occasion.

1949 Times 5 Sept. 5/4 It appears that the piano, once the principal prestige object..is being supplanted by the tiled fireplace, though Mr. Chapman does not mention the radiogram—or the television set.

1953 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 4 95/2 ‘Genetic’ seems used simply as a prestige word..and indeed there is no attempt at working out any genealogical classification.

1958 Observer 25 May 16/2 To-day ‘culture’ is being marketed as a prestige-product.

1964 Eng. Stud. 45 (Suppl.) 22 But very often there is a marked difference in tone between the foreign and the native terms, the former being felt as prestige-word, the latter as the plain terms.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 37/2 (advt.) Accommodation available in Toronto's finest small nursing home, central prestige location, single or double occupancy.

1985 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 15 Aug. 46/2 Examples of Cameroon's distinctive wood carvings..are included, as well as memorial figures and prestige objects such as fly-whisks.

1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. vi. 227 At Téviec domestic cattle have been claimed..and one sheep or goat tooth is documented. Domesticates here quite clearly only had significance as exotic prestige valuables.

1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Nov. 74/3 The Startac [cell phone] was a fashion statement, and priced as a prestige product (about $2,000 a pop).

2004 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 24 Jan. b7 Spirituality is a popular prestige word, and these surveys show the majority of Canadians think it is very important.

2005 Hist. Today (Nexis) 1Feb. 37 Transatlantic liners now acted as national prestige objects attracting state support from all countries joining the race to New York.