bon ton
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But then, the bon ton, not content with padding only bums, moved the bustle round to the tummy at the front.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
She founded the American Art Students' Club�now Reid Hall�made a place for herself in the capital's bon ton, no easy feat.
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The book reports Lucius' ad ventures with "butlered bon ton."
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Bullock's Wilshire, tony Los Angeles department store, went after war-workers' dollars; Macy's, New York's people's store, waved farewell to the bon ton trade.
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According to bon ton, she hates her husband, and flirts with Colonel Tivy; and Colonel Tivy, who is engaged to Miss Tittup, flirts with a married woman.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.