But the long-snooty brand's pattern was rediscovered early in 2000, after Burberry started playing it up.
One big-city trait he can afford to leave behind is the legendary snooty service.
What about the less-democratic, more snooty surveys, where editors (not readers) select their favorites?
OpenTable, a website, allows people to book a table without having to plead with a snooty hostess.
One snooty envoy seems to regard meeting anyone below the prime minister as a breach of protocol.
"We thought it would be a bunch of snooty rich people, but it's not, " says Laura Winning.
But now the long-snooty brand's camel-black-red-and-white check drapes rap singers who rhapsodize about it in their gritty songs.
These typically have been scrappy working class strivers pitted against the snooty Ivy Leaguers peopling the investment world.
Dealers who work with tech clients are protective of them, wary of a culture clash with snooty art climbers.
On television, Petherbridge is best known for playing the snooty sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey in the Dorothy L Sayers Mysteries.
What's worth a bigger laugh -- snooty British actors reciting lines from "Jersey Shore, " or the Dramatic Chipmunk?
Although the Nehru-Gandhi family was not, as Ms Singh states several times, aristocratic, they and their circle could certainly be snooty.
Although the London Stock Exchange might once have been snooty about joining a continental exchange as a junior partner, times have changed.
So far, Avtovaz's snooty managers have spurned foreign approaches (although there are well-advanced talks with General Motors about assembling cars under licence).
Snooty outsiders, both commentators and policymakers, tend to lump all this together.
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For the French, traditionally so snooty about their language, that requires sacrifices.
To this day, Britain's reluctance to plunge into the European endeavour strikes many Europeans as a result of snooty, post-imperial delusions of grandeur.
Traverse City or Papillon may be nice places to retire now, but what happens if a bunch of snooty, vicious churls like me show up?
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Over the past decade, its transformation from a snooty commercial bank into a market-oriented investment bank has fostered a more outward-looking and less separatist culture.
Some snooty observers of Macquarie's initial overtures to the LSE dismissed them as publicity-seeking on the part of a bank keen to raise its profile beyond the shores of Australia.
But elections are a rough game and he is left looking snooty towards half of America - it reinforces the very image of him the Obama campaign are trying to push.
Nevertheless, if German investors remain snooty, a string of other newcomers will find it harder to raise cash such as Siltronic, another semiconductor firm that is due for listing on March 26th.
Snooty traditionalists banned most forms of advertising until 1988.
He seemed less like a snooty aesthete than a regular guy who just happened to know a little more about movies than anyone else in the neighborhood and set up a little corner stand to talk about them.
Because, while we all no doubt sympathise with restaurateurs struggling in the face of chastened bankers and shrivelling corporate-expense accounts, there's no doubt that this is an excellent time to try those establishments previously considered too expensive or too snooty.
She told The Andrew Marr Show that one of the emails she had received said "the nursing profession is no longer the caring profession" while another said "since they made nursing a degree course the wrong kind of people are entering the profession... we do not need a load of snooty-nosed pen pushers".
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