What is "upper-class"

Usage examples of "upper-class".

Her Anglic was North American, almost-but-not-quite Taxpayer class, the voice of someone who carefully copied the upper-class accents on the Tri-V.

He was a most impressive figure of a an whose plummy upper-class English accent and classical features belied his Afrikaner origins.

Only the upper-class women were constrained by their status into ladylike homebound activities.

To him doctors were upper-class people who made lots of money and had good lives.

A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad, and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families.

The archangels and the upper-class patriarchs wear a finer thing than that.

Speaking as an Englishman, one of the pluses of New York is that it makes you feel surprisingly well-educated and upper-class.

Certainly Madame Madeleine Mathiot de la Bec was a lady whose upper-class lineage could not be doubted, especially when she took him into the dimly lit salon to show him the work on the easel that straitened circumstances were forcing her to sell.

Directly behind Nicholas was a block of upper-class apartments with a row of arabesqued lintels under the second floor windows and an ornamental ironwork fence along the street level.

The middle-class Babbitts are denied friendship by the upper-class McKelveys.

As he talked, I imagined that he'd probably gotten the coveted brownnoser award in his senior year at Yale or Harvard, where he had also learned to talk with a whiny, upper-class drawl.

Unlike Bret, who was wearing the same sort of Savile Row suit he wore to the office, Frank had come correctly attired for the upper-class English weekend: old Bedford cord trousers and a khaki sweater with a silk scarf in the open neck of his faded shirt.

The adenoidal voice and upper-class British accent belonged to Cyril Langhorne, an ace cryptographer and cipher clerk.

From all corners of the quadrangle, the slidewalks carried Earthworms in their green uniforms, upper-class cadets in deep blue, enlisted spacemen in scarlet red, and Solar Guard officers in their striking uniforms of black and gold.

The Santander diplomatic service was supposed to be a harmless dumping ground for wellnxmnected upper-class playboys.