Four Hundred

See also: four hundred

English

Etymology

(US): Attributed to Ward McAllister.

Proper noun

the Four Hundred (historical)

  1. (Ancient Greece) A short-lived oligarchy that replaced the democratic government of ancient Athens following the Athenian coup of 411 BCE.
  2. (US) A list of the people in New York fashionable society during the Gilded Age.

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