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There was a time the word "millionaire" carried cachet. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was first used in French in the early eighteenth century and in English nearly a century later. Regardless of your station in French society in 1719, you would recognize a net worth of one million livres being notable. The same would be true for one million U.S. dollars a century later. Only a small percentage of society could be listed within a roster of millionaires.
