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wasp

mastery

UK /wɒsp/ US /wɑsp/nounverb

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What does 'wasp' mean in this sentence?

Joseph Alsop, the acerbic columnist she married in 1961, called his crowd “the ever-diminishing group of survivors of the WASP ascendancy.” It was a world of perfect manners and closely held power.