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Old money   /oʊld mˈəni/   Listen
Old money

noun
1.
The inherited wealth of established upper-class families.  Synonym: silver spoon.  "She is the daughter of old money from Massachusetts"





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"Old money" Quotes from Famous Books



... the young man cautiously, almost suspiciously. "He don't keep no jewels nor no money in his chamber. He got some old things,—old jugs, old brass figgers, old money, such as they used to have in old times: she don't pass now." Paolo's genders were apt ...
— A Mortal Antipathy • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Words linked to "Old money" :   silver spoon, inherited wealth


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