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Substantiv

  1. The elite or upper crust of society.
  2. That portion of society that is especially concerned with etiquette, proper behavior, and politeness.

Exempel

  • [H]e had been brought up in an extravagant family, who considered tradesmen and manufacturers as a caste disgraceful to polite society.
  • [I]n the midst of the company assembled the reader's humble servant was present, and in a very polite society, too, of "poets, clergymen, men of letters, and members of both Houses of Parliament."
  • [S]he managed with considerable effort to keep up a sufficient outward semblance of mourning to satisfy the customs and fashions of polite society.
  • Scenes, Lady Jane had explained—on the occasion of his knocking down an objectionable cabman during their honeymoon trip—were of all things what polite society most resolutely abhorred.
  • It used to be said that in polite society one shouldn't discuss sex or money.

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