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名詞

middling sort (複数形 middling sorts)

1. The middle class, especially in 18th-century Britain.

   Synonym: middling class

   • 2005, Tony Judt, “The Social Democratic Movement”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

     On the contrary: ever since the decline of the music halls, theatre had been the purview of the middling sort—even when the subject matter was ostensibly proletarian.