café society
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Especially from the late-19th century through the mid-20th century in Europe and America, a culture characterized by continual socializing in bistros, coffee shops, and nightclubs, sometimes extravagantly frivolous and sometimes intensely intellectual in nature but always high-spirited.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Manhattan café society provokes a lot of writing, most of it about as enduring as a café socialite's hangover."
- "He was one of those who in the 1930's pioneered . . . candid shots of socialites and entertainers out-on-the-town and eager to be seen. . . . His photography became one of the elements on which café society thrived."
- "This was the moment […] when he realised that the free-wheeling café culture of the 1930s or the 1950s – when Jean-Paul Sartre held court in Montparnasse – had vanished. Overall, he concludes (rightly, I think) that the French café is thriving but French café society is dead."
- "Iran's cafe society has been targeted as a fertile breeding ground for dissidents."