brahmin

Examples

• All

• The earliest champion of the literacy test was Lodge, the Massachusetts Brahmin who became Wilson's nemesis.

  Academic text (1994)

• Nonetheless, he is fully assimilated to the Boston Brahmin ethos today.

  Blog text (24)

• She felt trapped in the midst of all that Brahmin conversation.

  Fiction book (2000)

• But he just didn't get along with this kind of Boston Brahmin, you know, Vannevar Bush type.

  MIT OpenCourseWare

• Miss Bishop, he purred in his southern tinged Boston Brahmin drawl.

  Harvard University

• Within the same week you spoke of your dream, I had one where a group of us were at a party at a very swank place with lots of mahogany, oriental rugs, and the scent of Boston Brahmin in the air.

  Blog text (34)

• I can still recall her stating, "I've been black all my seventy-eight years" to a young Boston Brahmin who, if his eyes were any indication, had confronted his own private Hades.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The league favored drastic curbs on further immigration, and the man who would become its main advocate in Congress was the thoroughly Brahmin Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, R-Mass.

  Blog text (24)

• George Dorr, summer resident, Boston Brahmin, and first superintendent of the park, literally rewrote the map of Mount Desert Island by replacing Yankee names with ones from the colonial era (Dorr 1992).

  Academic text (1993)

• Everyone in Boston knows the prominent families, known as Brahmins, control much of the city's social scene.

Synonyms

B

brahman

vsbrahmin

• US

9.9

A person from a wealthy old New England family who belongs to the social elite

is specific to New England rather than the whole country

Surface Forms

Etymology