café society

See also: cafe society

English

Alternative forms

cafe society

Noun

café society (plural café societies)

Especially from the late-19th century through the mid-20th century in Europe and America, a culture characterized by continual socializing in bistros, coffee shops, and nightclubs, sometimes extravagantly frivolous and sometimes intensely intellectual in nature but always high-spirited.
- 1938 Sept. 19, "Books: Caf" (book review of The Happy Island by Dawn Powell), Time (retrieved 26 May 2014):
  Manhattan café society provokes a lot of writing, most of it about as enduring as a café socialite's hangover.
- 1988 Aug. 23, Wolfgang Saxon, "Obituary: Jerome Zerbe, 85, Photographer Of Café Society and a Columnist," New York Times (retrieved 26 May 2014):
  He was one of those who in the 1930's pioneered . . . candid shots of socialites and entertainers out-on-the-town and eager to be seen. . . . His photography became one of the elements on which café society thrived.
- 2009 Nov. 20, John Lichfield, "Cafe society is dead, but long live the cafe," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 26 May 2014):
  [H]e realised that the free-wheeling café culture of the 1930s or the 1950s – when Jean-Paul Sartre held court in Montparnasse – had vanished. Overall, he concludes (rightly, I think) that the French café is thriving but French café society is dead.
- 2013 Jan. 23, "Iran's morality police crack down on coffee shops: Popular hangout for Tehrani intellectuals closes," The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 26 May 2014):
  Iran's cafe society has been targeted as a fertile breeding ground for dissidents.

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单词	café society
释义	café society See also: cafe society English Alternative forms cafe society Noun café society (plural café societies) Especially from the late-19th century through the mid-20th century in Europe and America, a culture characterized by continual socializing in bistros, coffee shops, and nightclubs, sometimes extravagantly frivolous and sometimes intensely intellectual in nature but always high-spirited. 1938 Sept. 19, "Books: Caf" (book review of The Happy Island by Dawn Powell), Time (retrieved 26 May 2014): Manhattan café society provokes a lot of writing, most of it about as enduring as a café socialite's hangover. 1988 Aug. 23, Wolfgang Saxon, "Obituary: Jerome Zerbe, 85, Photographer Of Café Society and a Columnist," New York Times (retrieved 26 May 2014): He was one of those who in the 1930's pioneered . . . candid shots of socialites and entertainers out-on-the-town and eager to be seen. . . . His photography became one of the elements on which café society thrived. 2009 Nov. 20, John Lichfield, "Cafe society is dead, but long live the cafe," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 26 May 2014): [H]e realised that the free-wheeling café culture of the 1930s or the 1950s – when Jean-Paul Sartre held court in Montparnasse – had vanished. Overall, he concludes (rightly, I think) that the French café is thriving but French café society is dead. 2013 Jan. 23, "Iran's morality police crack down on coffee shops: Popular hangout for Tehrani intellectuals closes," The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 26 May 2014): Iran's cafe society has been targeted as a fertile breeding ground for dissidents. See also intelligentsia jet set References café society at OneLook Dictionary Search
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