Lexic.us

Definition of Smart set

1. Noun. The fashionable elite.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smart Set

Literary usage of Smart set

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Heretics by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1905)
"XV — On Smart Novelists and the smart set IN one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. ..."

2. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by [Anonymus AC02789944] (1920)
"... BY HOWARD MUMFORD JONES From The smart set IF the house had been merely shabby I doubt whether I would have been interested. Every residence section has ..."

3. Society As I Have Found It by Ward McAllister (1890)
"... We band Together for our Common Good— The Organization of the " Cotillon Dinners " — The " Smart " Set, and the " Solid " Set — A Defense of Fashion. ..."

4. Society As I Have Found It by Ward MacAllister (1890)
"... We band Together fir our Common Good— The Organization of the " Cotillon Dinners " — The " Smart " Set, and the " Solid " Set — A Defense of Fashion. ..."

5. Queer Things about Japan by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1903)
"CHAPTER XVI THE smart set IN JAPAN THE smart set in Japan does not know its own mind. ... The official “smart set,” which embraces ambassadors and cabinet ..."

6. The Compromises of Life, and Other Lectures and Addresses, Including Some by Henry Watterson (1903)
"The smart set are a living reproach to riches. ... THE smart set, THE NEWSPAPERS, AND THE TRUTH Courier-Journal, September 17, 1902. ..."

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