| 单词 | smart set |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmart set smart set n. colloquial (sometimes depreciative, with connotations of decadence) the extremely fashionable portion of society; fashionable people considered as a group; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] higheOE high life?a1518 towna1616 world1618 grand monde1673 society1693 beau monde1712 fine world1740 monde1765 tonc1770 high society1782 fashion1807 all the world1808 society1840 smart set1851 swelldom1854 Fifth Avenue1858 fashionabledom1859 haut monde1864 the big cheesea1910 higlif1911 haute Bohème1925 café society1937 jet set1949 beautiful people1950 1851 C. Norton Stuart of Dunleath I. xiii. 215 He did not belong to the ‘smart set’ of London society; he had not cared to belong to it. 1885 E. W. Hamilton Diary 20 May (1972) II. 867 Dined at Brook House... This is a house at which one meets the ‘grand set’ as distinct from the ‘smart set’—two totally different sections of the best London Society. 1900 Smart Set Apr. 137 The Smart Set of London has for the last ten or fifteen years..been the chief influence of our English playwrights, plays and players. 1949 P. Hastings Cases in Court v. 265 Mrs Barney's family were well-known in Mayfair and both Mrs Barney and the dead man were notorious members of the so-called young ‘smart set’. 1974 P. Dickinson Poison Oracle ii. 66 Dinah [sc. an ape]..had indeed left the slums to join the evolutionary smart set, Man. 2004 Sunday Times Trav. Feb. 69/2 This is Green Spain—the Costa Verde—where Madrid's smart set comes to escape the furnace heat of the Castilian summer. < as lemmas |
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