Social Climbers (Philadelphia, 1885) (continued)

[Fred Shapiro]

I don't see the term "social climber" anywhere in this passage.  The term
"climber" does not seem really different from the figurative application
of OED sense 1., which is attested in 1833, even arguably in Shakespeare.


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