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the quality

noun

Etymology

From quality (“high social position”).

Definitions

  1. The upper class, the high society, the gentry

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

    • 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.
    • The rector kept open house on that day, but by degrees the “quality” gave up going, and the fair, of course, became disreputable, till at last it was put down as a nuisance.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of the quality (the upper class)

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA