Meanings
nounsocial season (plural social seasons)
plural social seasons
- UKA traditional annual period in the spring and summer when it is customary for members of the social elite to hold balls, dinner parties and charity events.
By virtue of their position, they were in palaces and situation rooms and oval offices instead of ballrooms and yachts on the Adriatic, involved in national security negotiations, and key members of internationally significant investigations instead of social seasons and fashion weeks.
2022 November 17, Emily Jane Fox, “Inside Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Gilded Florida Paradise—Far From Donald Trump or 2024”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2023
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