She stayed at two or three places a day for at least one meal--hotels in tiny towns she had never heard of, and in larger towns that were fumbling for metropolitanism.
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Metropolitanism
Synonyms for "metropolitanism" (6 found)
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city centrismcity culture
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metropolitan culture
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Bennietod was Bowery-born and office-bred, and this sad metropolitanism almost made of him a good philosopher.
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But in the form of its expression it exemplified that illusion of metropolitanism which is to my mind the veriest cockneyism in disguise, and which cannot but strike Americans as either ridiculous or offensive.
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NOTE.—The Bytown mentioned in the foregoing chapter is now called Ottawa, and is a candidate, in conjunction with Montreal and Toronto, for the honour of permanent metropolitanism.
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