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
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
She takes pleasure in being surrounded with duns, observing, that by such people a person of fashion is to be distinguished.
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
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
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
