"Mrs. Leo Hunter" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "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”).",
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          "ref": "1834, Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood, Etiquette, the American Code of Manners:",
          "text": "The third danger is, that she accepts, in lieu of the best acquaintances, second and third rate people, the hangers-on upon society, people who have not the best or freshest reputation—the Mrs. Leo Hunters, the Misses Bore and the Messrs. Fraudulent, who are a large family.",
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          "ref": "1840, The Quarterly Review, volume 65, page 266:",
          "text": "In the salon of a Lafitte or a Mrs. Leo Hunter there may be mixtures of the sort — not in that society, either of London or Paris, which there is any pretence for comparing to the upper circles of Vienna.",
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          "ref": "1917, John Hutton Balfour Browne, Recollections Literary and Political, page 55:",
          "text": "I will not say a word against a Mrs. Leo Hunter who lived in H Street, and who every Sunday evening filled her drawing-rooms with every notable person she could lay her hands on. Her house was on these occasions a museum of notorieties. Distinction of any sort was an introduction to her hospitalities.",
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        {
          "ref": "1940, Wyndham Lewis, America, I Presume, page 175:",
          "text": "She was a Mrs. Leo Hunter, model 1939. But she hunted lions as if they were rats: as if they were some noxious pest that her malign fate had decreed she should tirelessly pursue, but every millimeter of whose guts she hated.",
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        "A woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people."
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        "(dated) A woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people."
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          "ref": "1840, The Quarterly Review, volume 65, page 266:",
          "text": "In the salon of a Lafitte or a Mrs. Leo Hunter there may be mixtures of the sort — not in that society, either of London or Paris, which there is any pretence for comparing to the upper circles of Vienna.",
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          "ref": "1917, John Hutton Balfour Browne, Recollections Literary and Political, page 55:",
          "text": "I will not say a word against a Mrs. Leo Hunter who lived in H Street, and who every Sunday evening filled her drawing-rooms with every notable person she could lay her hands on. Her house was on these occasions a museum of notorieties. Distinction of any sort was an introduction to her hospitalities.",
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