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To visit the New York showroom is to court the possibility of rubbing shoulders with many notabilities of rank and fashion .

From Time Magazine Archive

During her absence a limited number of notabilities were allowed to inspect her car, which had cost �12,000.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

All the authorities and notabilities of the country were present.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

The house was crowded, and many notabilities were present.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.

I got back to Oxford just in time for the festival dinner of the Canning and Chatham Clubs, at which my old schoolfellow Alfred Lyttelton, Hugh Cecil, and other Tory notabilities, were guests.

From A New Medley of Memories by Hunter-Blair, David