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

To judge from this list, Lady Morgan was a person of fashion in those days.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick

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

If this question were put to the ordinary person of fashion or leisure, how would it be answered?

From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider