Poshdom

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition or world of the upper class; refinement; elegance uncountable

    "[…] they went through her mind like fast thunderstorms, and Jonathan Fraiser as the cause and manipulator, high priest of the ... biographer and deflator of "poshdom and poverty alike," the same mutants of an alienated culture […]"

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"[…] they went through her mind like fast thunderstorms, and Jonathan Fraiser as the cause and manipulator, high priest of the ... biographer and deflator of "poshdom and poverty alike," the same mutants of an alienated culture […]"

Etymology

From posh + -dom.

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