What term was first coined by physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes and is typically used to refer to a group of 50+ 'elite' families of Boston often associated with Harvard, Anglicanism, and high social and economic standing?

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1. What term was first coined by physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes and is typically used to refer to a group of 50+ 'elite' families of Boston often associated with Harvard, Anglicanism, and high social and economic standing?