Four Hundred

noun

the exclusive social set of a city or area.

Also, 400.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; allegedly after the capacity of the ballroom in the mansion of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, a leader of New York society in the late 19th century

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Four Hundred

—n
	(US) the Four Hundred the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place

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"Down in the living room I have a clock which is called a "four-hundred-day" clock, which is supposed to run 400 days without winding. This feat seems to be accomplished by arranging four large cherries on a rotating stem which hangs out of the works of the clock (clearly visible through the glass cover) and they go slowly round one way and then slowly round the other until the person who is watching them has gone mad."

-Robert Benchley

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