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

Word History and Origins

Origin of smart set¹

First recorded in 1885–90

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]

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• aristocracy
• blue blood
• jet set
• upper class