four hundred

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He replaced the Council of Four Hundred with one of five hundred and reorganized the Athenians into ten new tribes, including in each one villages from different parts of Attica.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Rich people — and there were supposedly only Four Hundred of them — gathered in Mrs. Astor’s ballroom.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2019

Or at the very least as rigorous an exclusion from glory as that which formerly marked the difference between Mrs. Astor’s Four Hundred and the rest of the human race.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2014

The enormous gold watch fob Samuel Ward McAllister, the self-appointed gatekeeper of the Four Hundred, sports in his 1877 portrait by Adolphe Yvon is set off by his sober black bespoke suit.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2014

I would rather be one of a few gathered together by a bond of friendship than to partake of all the glitter and hollowness of what is called the "Four Hundred."

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various