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- 1. the regular patrons of fashionable restaurants and nightclubs: "a group of painters from 1920s cafe society"
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Café society was the description of the "Beautiful People" and "Bright Young Things" who gathered in fashionable cafés and restaurants in New York, Paris and London beginning in the late 19th century. Maury Henry Biddle Paul is credited with coining the phrase "café society" in 1915. Members attended each other's private dinners and balls, and took holidays in exotic locations or at elegant resort... Wikipedia