Mrs. Leo Hunter

plural Mrs. Leo Hunters

1. datedA woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people.

   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

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   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

   I will not say a word against a Mrs. Leo Hunter who lived in H Street, and who every Sunday evening filled her drawing-rooms with every notable person she could lay her hands on. Her house was on these occasions a museum of notorieties. Distinction of any sort was an introduction to her hospitalities.

   1917, John Hutton Balfour Browne, Recollections Literary and Political, page 55

   She was a Mrs. Leo Hunter, model 1939. But she hunted lions as if they were rats: as if they were some noxious pest that her malign fate had decreed she should tirelessly pursue, but every millimeter of whose guts she hated.

   1940, Wyndham Lewis, America, I Presume, page 175