four hundred

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Under Solon’s new laws, each of Athens’s four traditional tribes chose one hundred of its members by lot, including commoners, to sit in the new Council of Four Hundred and run the government.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Mrs. “Jack” is more beautiful than when she last appeared in her box at the Metropolitan Opera-House, an acknowledged belle of the Four Hundred.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2019

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

And this aristocracy is quite independent of any social cachet, whether of the New York Four Hundred or of any other authority.

From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry