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BON TON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bon ton mean?
• BON TON (noun)
The noun BON TON has 1 sense:
1. the fashionable elite
Familiarity information: BON TON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The fashionable elite
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
beau monde; bon ton; high society; smart set; society
Hypernyms ("bon ton" is a kind of...):
elite; elite group (a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status)
Meronyms (members of "bon ton"):
Four Hundred (the exclusive social set of a city)
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