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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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"Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother."

-François Rabelais