adj. (American).—Aristocratic; also, morally and intellectually endowed; spiritually beyond the common. HIGH-SOULED = cultured; fashionable. HIGH-TONED NIGGER = a negro who has raised himself in social position. [Once literary; now utterly discredited and never used, save in ignorance or derision.] Stokes, the maniac who shot Garfield, described himself as a ‘HIGH-TONED Lawyer.’
1884. PHILLLPPS-WOLLEY, Trottings of a Tenderfoot, ch. i. I never saw any so-called ‘HIGH-TONE’ NIGGERS.
1893. Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 1 Feb., p. 389, 1. One day a fashionably-dressed young man, giving an address in a HIGH-TONED suburb, called upon Messrs. Glitter.
