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☆ four hundred

the exclusive social set of a particular place: preceded by the

Etymology: popularized by C. J. Allen, New York Sun society reporter, from a remark by Ward McAllister: “There are only 400 people in New York that one really knows”; prob. from limited capacity of Mrs. J. J. Astor's ballroom

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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