#383 echelon

echelon- a level of command, responsibility

C18 from French echelon literally: rung of a ladder from Old French eschiele ladder, from Latin scala

The grand parties of the twenties only roared for a certain echelon of society, and there was a whole segment that was virtually untouched by the depression.

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