jet set , also: jet-set

A jet set is an international social group of wealthy people.

Exposure and big money have made sports figures part of the jet set, their lives like open books.

"This is not a little playground for beautiful people and the jet set," he said.

Carmen has been well known among the Mexican and international jet set.

It is also known for its jet set and European aristocracy crowd.

Those who traveled by air back then, "the jet set," were associated with wealth and fashion.

The light-as-cappuccino-foam subject of summer life among the jet set should be able to stand on its own merits.

In the 1980s, Marbella continued to be a destination for the jet set.

"I don't feel comfortable with the jet set," he admits.

The jet set has had its fill of jets.

Updike has organized endless basketball, volleyball and touch-football games, led the jet set on skiing trips, and presided over countless intramural parties.

Such individuals receive media attention in various ways, such as the prominence of the jet set in popular culture in past decades.

Readers seemed to find vicarious pleasure in following the adventures of an expatriate but ordinary American flirting with royalty and the jet set without becoming a snob.

Back in the winter of 1960, everyone--from the jet set to the hoi polloi--was swivelling and shimmying to a new dance called The Twist.

Tayfun has always been envious of the life led by the spoilt children of the jet set to whom he sells drugs.

She is known among the international jet set as the "punk princess" who collects contemporary art.

The cocaine was distributed among the jet set in Palermo.

Its beak shone like burnished gold, and its eyes glinted like jet set in yellow stones; its huge white wings were half lifted.

St. Anton was never really the home of the jet set unless they were serious skiers too, but it has always had a strong tradition of great skiing.

As chief features artist, he helped transform the once-dowdy WWD into the bible of the jet set during the 1960s and 1970s.