café society
Chic urban scene
Café society refers to the fashionable social world of wealthy, glamorous people who frequent trendy restaurants, nightclubs, and other public venues.
The term evokes 1930s and 1940s New York, when socialites, celebrities, and the well-connected gathered at establishments like the Stork Club: She chronicled the romances and rivalries of café society.
The phrase now sounds nostalgic or ironic.
- bon vivantConnoisseur of life's pleasures
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
- MontmartreHilltop artists' district in Paris
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- late nightsTime after midnight
after hours · flâneur · literary salons · fin de siècle · expatriates · Left Bank · jet set · Lost Generation · smart set · artistic circles · cabaret · avant-garde · nonconformity · Truman Capote · glitterati · bohemian lifestyle · elite · Latin Quarter
café societyworking class
Manual laborers collectively
proletariat · blue-collar workers · the masses · common people · hoi polloi
café societynobodies
Unimportant, unknown persons
unknown quantities · faceless crowd · invisible people · silent majority · shut-ins
café societyrural population
Inhabitants of non-urban areas
small-town America · rustics · peasantry · heartland · village life