Four Hundred

Four Hundred
the exclusive social set of a city or area.
Also, 400.
[1885-90, Amer.; allegedly after the capacity of the ballroom in the mansion of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, a leader of New York society in the late 19th century]

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