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☆ social register

a directory or list of people prominent in the fashionable society of a given area

Etymology: < the title of such a directory, later trademarked

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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