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Upper ten thousand

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The ten thousand people, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. colloquial, dated, plural, plural-only

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Coined in the 1800s by American poet and author Nathaniel Parker Willis.

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