leisured class
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A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
I think I shall become one of the intelligent leisured class.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
The leisured class of England consists of both sexes, that of America practically of one only.
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
The great principle of conspicuous ritualistic waste had been illustrated in a manner to satisfy the most exacting standard of the leisured class; and incidentally a subject of talk was provided.
From The Roll-Call by Bennett, Arnold
