middling sorts
middling sorts is the plural of middling sort.
Meaning of middling sort
Noun
middling sort (plural middling sorts)
- The middle class, especially in 18th-century Britain.
- On the contrary: ever since the decline of the music halls, theatre had been the purview of the middling sort—even when the subject matter was ostensibly proletarian.2005, Tony Judt, “The Social Democratic Movement”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- middling class
Questions about middling sorts
- What is middling sorts the plural of?
- Middling sorts is the plural of middling sort.
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