café society

noun

|Updated on: 12 May 2018

Definition of café society

: society of persons who are regular patrons of fashionable cafés

Recent Examples of café society from the Web

After arguing with a group of American Communists who comprised Havana’s new cafe society, a sobered Cohen shaved the beard and put on a seersucker suit, as recounted by Nadel.

— judy cantor-navas, Billboard, "Leonard Cohen's Havana Adventures Chronicled in New 'Drawn & Recorded' Season: Watch a Preview," 2 May 2018
In 2010, the cafe was the site of the city’s first parklet, a place that was coffee grounds zero for the newly emerging Divisadero Street cafe society.

— leah garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, "Homage to the Christmas lights next door," 4 Jan. 2018

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