person of fashion

Example Sentences

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“As a person of fashion, will it bother you if you have to wear orange?” somebody asked.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2019

The Baroness, too, was a woman of the world, and, possibly, on occasion, could be as selfish as any other person of fashion.

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

She was evidently a fine dame, a person of fashion in this Saharan capital.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James

Now in China and Japan certainly a ghost does not wait till people enter the haunted room: a ghost, like a person of fashion, "goes everywhere."

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew

I must now pass over about three weeks, during which I became very intimate with the major and Mr Harcourt, and was introduced by them to the clubs, and almost every person of fashion.

From Japhet in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick