smart set
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
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Examples from the Web for smart set
It was truly an inspiration; just the sort of thing to hand out to one of Newport's smart-set.
When Dreams Come True|Ritter BrownHe had a beautiful disdain for society—society in its Smart-Set sense.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14)|Elbert HubbardI suspected the new doctor of a sense of humour, as well as of an understanding of current smart-set satire.
Pushed and the Return Push|George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)He sounds to me like a sort of smart-set Raffles, Gibbs asserted.
Under Cover|Roi Cooper Megrue
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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