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The quality

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The upper class, the high society, the gentry; the people of quality. UK, archaic, idiomatic, plural, plural-only

    "20 July 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their travelling habits."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of the quality (the upper class) alt-of, plural, plural-only

    "I would have spoken further, but before I could get under way the door opened, revealing Ma Cream, and [my manservant Jeeves] shimmered silently from the room. Unless expressly desired to remain, he always shimmers off when what is called the Quality arrive."

Etymology

From quality (“high social position”).

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