19th-century phrase for the wealthiest 10,000 residents of New York City
A reprint of the paragraph in which Nathaniel Parker Willis coined the term, 1845
Upper Ten Thousand, or simply, The Upper Ten, is a 19th-century phrase referring to the wealthiest 10,000 residents of New York City. The phrase was coined in 1844 by American poet and author Nathaniel Parker Willis.[1] Soon, the term came to be used to describe the upper circles not only of New York, but also those of other major cities.[2]
^Allen, Irving Lewis. The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993: 222. ISBN 0-19-507591-9
^Bartlett, John Russell (1859), Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 494
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