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socialite

[ soh-shuh-lahyt ]

noun

  1. a socially prominent person.


socialite

/ ˈ²õəʊʃəˌ±ô²¹Éª³Ù /

noun

  1. a person who is or seeks to be prominent in fashionable society
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Origin of socialite1

First recorded in 1925–30; social + -ite 1
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“The experience of playing a socialite means you are in the hair and makeup chair far longer than you are when you’re playing a detective,†said Fumero, laughing.

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Soon Tompkins enters this free-for-all theater of the mind as a Truman Capote-coded socialite named “Hoover Personae†— who at one point observes that the masked vigilante “The Shadow†“was a butterface.â€

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Two 20-year-old socialites and besties abandon their lives in Los Angeles to live in rural, blue-collar America.

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The politicians, socialites, and Catholic leaders present at the dinner didn’t take the joke well, but their groans weren’t nearly as scornful as the former First Lady’s reaction.

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A wealthy socialite led an operation to launder more than £200m of criminals' cash, a jury has been told.

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