carriage trade n 1: trade from upper-class customers carriage trade

carriage trade n., literary Rich or upper class people. The hotel is so expensive that only the carriage trade stays there. The carriage trade buys its clothes at the best stores. carriage trade

carriage trade noun Date: circa 1909 trade from well-to-do or upper-class people; also well-to-do people carriage trade

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "carriage trade": Vanity Fair, beau monde, beautiful people, best people, blue blood, cafe society, clientage, clientele, cream of society, custom, drawing room, elite, fashionable society, flower, gentility, gentry, good society, haut monde, high life, high society, in-crowd, jet set, jeunesse doree, market, monde, patronage, people of fashion, polite society, public, purchasing public, quality, right people, rural market, salon, smart set, social register, societe, society, suburban market, the Four Hundred, trade, upper, upper class, upper crust, uppercut, world of fashion, youth market

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