glitterati

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Blanking out the recession for a moment, our question to the glitterati was fairly simple: If we gave you Rs1 crore and asked you to spend it on a special day like Holi, what would you put on your shopping list?

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  1. plural noun Informal Highly fashionable celebrities; the smart set: "private parties on Park Avenue and Central Park West, where the literati mingled with glitterati” (Skylines).

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  • I drowsed and watched lightning glittering in the distant clouds, and the earthly glitterati -- the rich, the powerful, the celebrated--circulating from ballroom and dining room to terrace and veranda. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 06 - December 1994
  • She couldn't see any of her First Contact Team co-workers among the politicos, glitterati, and others who'd cadged an invitation to the event. —  Strange Horizons, Dec '01
  • The solution is clear, although painful for the glitterati. —  Latest Articles
  • Before Katrina forced its closure, the French Quarter's Roosevelt Hotel spent 115 years as the go-to place for the glitterati. —  globorati
  • And its array of additional investors reads like a list of tech glitterati, including Marten Mickos, former MySQL CEO, and Diane Green, former VMware CEO. —  Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]
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