people of fashion

“Friend! he is no friend: he only teaches me to play tennis: he is hand-inglove with my lord, and all the people of fashion here who play.”

The Virginians 2006

It is not by seeing places that one knows them, but by familiar and daily conversations with the people of fashion.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

But, above all, may I be convinced that your pleasures, whatever they may be, will be confined within the circle of good company, and people of fashion?

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

He pretended to laugh at my simplicity, and asked, if I knew for which of his virtues he was so much caressed by the people of fashion.

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

The finest July weather had not produced such a superb display; for now the people of fashion, who had passed the summer at their country-seats, or in Switzerland, or among the Pyrenees, reappeared in their showy equipages.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

The Chevalier was from that time his hero: they had each of them attained to all the advantages which a knowledge of the world, and the society of people of fashion, could add to the improvement of good natural talents.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Queen's Meadow, a place frequented by the people of fashion.

Penguin Island 1909

Meadow, a place frequented by the people of fashion.

Penguin Island Anatole France 1884

"Friend! he is no friend: he only teaches me to play tennis: he is hand-in-glove with my lord, and all the people of fashion here who play."

The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Whenever, then, you go into good company, that is, the company of people of fashion, observe carefully their behaviour, their address, and their manner; imitate it as far as in your power.

The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant John Hamilton Moore 1772