the quality

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the Quality

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The upper class, the high society, the gentry; the people of quality.

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    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.

    Yet they did not pretend to be members of ‘the quality’, the people of fashion, the cosmopolitan beau monde or the ton, although they were not above harping on their exalted acquaintances among the nobility or the antiquity of their lineage when they saw fit.

词源

From quality (“high social position”).

来源：wiktionary