Mrs. Leo Hunter
Mrs. Leo Hunter noun: a woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people.
Noun
Mrs. Leo Hunter (plural Mrs. Leo Hunters)
- A woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people.
- The third danger is, that she accepts, in lieu of the best acquaintances, second and third rate people, the hangers-on upon society, people who have not the best or freshest reputation—the Mrs. Leo Hunters, the Misses Bore and the Messrs. Fraudulent, who are a large family.1834, Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood, Etiquette, the American Code of Manners
- In the salon of a Lafitte or a Mrs. Leo Hunter there may be mixtures of the sort — not in that society, either of London or Paris, which there is any pretence for comparing to the upper circles of Vienna.1840, The Quarterly Review, volume 65, page 266
Forms of Mrs. Leo Hunter
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Origin of Mrs. Leo Hunter
Name of a character in Charles Dickens' novel The Pickwick Papers (1836), intended to suggest a "lion hunter"; see lion (“a famous person regarded with interest and curiosity”).
Questions about Mrs. Leo Hunter
- What does Mrs. Leo Hunter mean?
- Mrs. Leo Hunter means a woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people.
- What part of speech is Mrs. Leo Hunter?
- Mrs. Leo Hunter is a noun.
- What is the plural of Mrs. Leo Hunter?
- The plural of Mrs. Leo Hunter is Mrs. Leo Hunters.
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