person of fashion

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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

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

When the appendages to a Dramatic Performance are not assigned to a friend, or an unknown hand, or a person of fashion, they are always supposed to be written by the author of the Play.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

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

When the appendages to a dramatic performance are not assigned to a friend, or an unknown hand, or a person of fashion, they are always supposed to be written by the author of the play.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel