"polite society" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1803, Maria Edgeworth, The Manufacturers:",
          "text": "[H]e had been brought up in an extravagant family, who considered tradesmen and manufacturers as a caste disgraceful to polite society.",
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          "ref": "1863, William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers:",
          "text": "[I]n the midst of the company assembled the reader's humble servant was present, and in a very polite society, too, of \"poets, clergymen, men of letters, and members of both Houses of Parliament.\"",
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          "ref": "1873, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter VI, in The Parisians, book IX:",
          "text": "[…] a club especially favoured by wits, authors, and the flaneurs of polite society.",
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          "sense": "elite or upper crust of society",
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          "ref": "1892, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 14, in Pietro Ghisleri:",
          "text": "[S]he managed with considerable effort to keep up a sufficient outward semblance of mourning to satisfy the customs and fashions of polite society.",
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          "ref": "1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 6, in The Gem Collector:",
          "text": "Scenes, Lady Jane had explained—on the occasion of his knocking down an objectionable cabman during their honeymoon trip—were of all things what polite society most resolutely abhorred.",
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          "ref": "2002 May 26, Frank Gibney Jr., “Can a Church Go Broke?”, in Time, archived from the original on 2016-03-07:",
          "text": "It used to be said that in polite society one shouldn't discuss sex or money.",
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        "That portion of society that is especially concerned with etiquette, proper behavior, and politeness."
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      "sense": "elite or upper crust of society",
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      "word": "bel mondo"
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