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smart set

noun

  1. sophisticated, fashionable people as a group:

    a shop catering to the smart set.



smart set

noun

  1. functioning as singular or plural fashionable sophisticated people considered as a group


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Word History and Origins

Origin of smart set1

First recorded in 1885–90

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Idioms and Phrases

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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Example Sentences

All for a smart set of photo filters and the tools to share them.

There have been two standard lines on Cain among the smart set.

It is called the "smart set," you understand, and I will give you an idea of how "smart" it is.

The book is filled with Mr. Bensons clever observations on the English smart set, and the love-story shows him at his best.

Of the brief vogue of bicycling among the "smart set" I have spoken already.

The smart set is devoting a good deal of attention of late to the costuming of house dogs.

The smart set absent from Newport were to be found at the Pier.

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