café society

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Recent Examples of café society Vogue did have artists capture the sartorial caprices of cafe society back in the day; these drawings usually illustrated points made in the accompanying text. Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2023 Showplace’s cafe society analyzed this transaction for the rest of the day. Alex Traub, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019 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, 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, 4 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for café society
Noun
  • More than an idyllic lakeside hamlet beloved by the international jet set, the northern Italian town of Como and the surrounding area are home to the country’s biggest silk-making districts, part of Italy’s fashion supply chain backbone.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 23 June 2026
  • The business jet set flew from Montreal, Canada, to Nice, France, in just over six hours.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • The characters are thin and the plot often ludicrous, but the sight of beautiful people making bad decisions is soothing enough to override one’s critical faculties.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • His recruiting focused on the beautiful people of the 1980s, so the screen fills with jet-setting supermodels and nights at Studio 54.
    Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • And the formal attire of the upper class continues to define the strict dress code today.
    Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
  • In the nineteenth century, upper class American women who had leisure time and literacy became really into keeping floral calendars to note when wildflowers bloomed.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Steinbeck creates a microcosm of American society, where disability, gender, race and class are all represented and shaped by an economic hierarchy.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • The comments sorted themselves into camps, each revealing something interesting about how our society has come to think about motherhood, sacrifice and raising children.
    Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Sargent escaped the scandal by decamping from Paris to London, and Gautreau retreated from the haut monde.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 5 May 2026

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“Café society.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caf%C3%A9%20society. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.

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