shopocracy

These stand on different ground, and I don't want to hurt their feelings or Gillian's by mixing them up with the shopocracy. '

Beechcroft at Rockstone Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Court, in which Mr Cranworth had danced with all the belles of the shopocracy of Eccleston -- there came creeping, creeping, in hidden, slimy courses, the terrible fever -- that fever which is never utterly banished from the sad haunts of vice and misery, but lives in such darkness, like a wild beast in the recesses of his den.

Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837