treated as singular or plural Fashionable, wealthy young people.
a new bar trying to attract the gilded youth of London
Example sentencesExamples
- In all this Yang is the epitome of the gilded youth of pre-WWII China who received an education in the West before coming home to face deprivation and civil war.
- I was at an upmarket chiringuito (beach bar) in the midst of a crowd of extremely gilded youth, sipping a cuba libre and listening to loud music.
- Indeed, if the book has an underlying theme, it is to refute the standard tabloid image of Dublin's gilded youth as badly behaved hedonists.
- The writers have avoided the commonplace and discovered a rich language for these gilded youth.
- Her murder shattered many illusions, exposing the dark underside of this exotic world, and triggered a debate about the morals of India's gilded youth.