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noun
A woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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History
Name of a character in Charles Dickens' novel The Pickwick Papers (1836), intended to suggest a "lion hunter"; see lion (“a famous person regarded with interest and curiosity”).
