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Feb. 22, 2015
Word of the Day

glitterati Audio Pronunciation
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\glit-uh-RAH-tee\
plural 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
Origin
Glitterati is an Americanism that blends the terms glitter and literati. It came into widespread use in the 1950s.
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