BON TON

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fashionable elite

Synonyms:

beau monde; bon ton; high society; smart set; society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("bon ton" is a kind of...):

elite; elite group (a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status)

Meronyms (members of "bon ton"):

Four Hundred (the exclusive social set of a city)

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