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Mrs. Leo Hunter

noun

Etymology

Name of a character in Charles Dickens' novel The Pickwick Papers (1836), intended to suggest a "lion hunter"; see lion (“a famous person regarded with interest and curiosity”).

Definitions

  1. A woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people.

    • In the salon of a Lafitte or a Mrs. Leo Hunter there may be mixtures of the sort — not in that society, either of London or Paris, which there is any pretence for comparing to the upper circles of Vienna.

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