jet-setty

See also: jetsetty

English

Alternative forms

• jetsetty

Etymology

From jet set +‎ -y.

Adjective

jet-setty (comparative more jet-setty, superlative most jet-setty)

1. Of or pertaining to the jet set.
   • 1976, Astro*Carto*Graphy, San Francisco, Calif., page 16:

     Esthetic perceptions are used in social milieux, so you bring together rather fashionable, jet-setty people, and display social graces and charm as major armaments in your quest for enviable social advantage.

   • 2004, Heidi Klum, Alexandra Postman, Heidi Klum’s Body of Knowledge: 8 Rules of Model Behavior (to Help You Take Off on the Runway of Life), New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 8:

     Reason number two that qualifies me to write this book: my jet-setty lifestyle. What I mean is that my work has granted me access to famous, successful people who love talking about how they got that way.

   • 2009, Stephen Hunter, I, Sniper, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 235:

     That proved only that in a glittery, jet-setty kind of life lived by minor celebrities, people whose pictures got in magazines, these two couples had known each other socially.