Four Hundred
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See also: four hundred
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(US): Attributed to Ward McAllister.
Proper noun[edit]
the Four Hundred (historical)
- (Ancient Greece) A short-lived oligarchy that replaced the democratic government of ancient Athens following the Athenian coup of 411 BCE.
- (US) A list of the people in New York fashionable society during the Gilded Age.
Further reading[edit]
Athenian coup of 411 BC on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - The Four Hundred (Gilded Age) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
