smart set
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noun
sophisticated, fashionable people as a group: a shop catering to the smart set.
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Origin of smart set
First recorded in 1885–90
Words nearby smart set
smart money, smartmouth, smartphone, smarts, smart sanction, smart set, smartwatch, smart weapons, smartweed, smart wool, smarty
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British Dictionary definitions for smart set
smart set
noun
(functioning as singular or plural) fashionable sophisticated people considered as a group
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Idioms and Phrases with smart set
smart set
A fashionable social group, as in This restaurant has been discovered by the smart set. This idiom may be obsolescent. [Late 1800s]
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