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

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

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

The hand is a good one, and of a person of fashion.

From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.

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