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单词 smart set
释义

smart set

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noun

sophisticated, fashionable people as a group: a shop catering to the smart set.

Origin of smart set

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby smart set

smart money, smartmouth, smartphone, smarts, smart sanction, smart set, smartwatch, smart weapons, smartweed, smart wool, smarty
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Example sentences from the Web for smart set

  • It was truly an inspiration; just the sort of thing to hand out to one of Newport's smart-set.

    When Dreams Come True|Ritter Brown
  • He had a beautiful disdain for society—society in its Smart-Set sense.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14)|Elbert Hubbard
  • I suspected the new doctor of a sense of humour, as well as of an understanding of current smart-set satire.

    Pushed and the Return Push|George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
  • He sounds to me like a sort of smart-set Raffles, Gibbs asserted.

    Under Cover|Roi Cooper Megrue

British Dictionary definitions for smart set

smart set

noun

(functioning as singular or plural) fashionable sophisticated people considered as a group
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Idioms and Phrases with smart set

smart set

A fashionable social group, as in This restaurant has been discovered by the smart set. This idiom may be obsolescent. [Late 1800s]

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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