smart set
noun
sophisticated, fashionable people as a group: a shop catering to the smart set.
Origin of smart set
First recorded in 1885–90
Words nearby smart set
smart drug,
smart dust,
smart mob,
smart money,
smart sanction,
smart set,
smart weapons,
smart wool,
smart-alec,
smart-ass,
smartarse
Example sentences from the Web for smart set
It was truly an inspiration; just the sort of thing to hand out to one of Newport's smart-set.
When Dreams Come True |Ritter BrownHe had a beautiful disdain for society—society in its Smart-Set sense.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) |Elbert HubbardI suspected the new doctor of a sense of humour, as well as of an understanding of current smart-set satire.
Pushed and the Return Push |George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)He sounds to me like a sort of smart-set Raffles, Gibbs asserted.
Under Cover |Roi Cooper Megrue
British Dictionary definitions for smart set
smart set
noun
(functioning as singular or plural)
fashionable sophisticated people considered as a group
Idioms and Phrases with smart set
smart set
A fashionable social group, as in This restaurant has been discovered by the smart set. This idiom may be obsolescent. [Late 1800s]