glitterati
\ glit-uh-RAH-tee \, noun;
1.wealthy or famous people who conspicuously attend fashionable events.
Quotes:
Hood watched as the glitterati entered beneath the golden light of the chandelier.
-- Jeff Rovin, Tom Clancy's Op Center: Divide and Conquer , 2000
Indeed, the party felt eerily reminiscent of those nights Warhol spent at Studio 54 when socialites mingled with glitterati and the downtown crowd.
-- Paul Alexander, "Tsuris in a Soup Can," New York , December 22–29, 1997
Origin:
Glitterati is an Americanism that blends the terms glitter and literati . It came into widespread use in the 1950s.
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