the.com/clientele

The clients you'd actually brag about, collectively, like a trophy case with pulses.

means The body of customers or clients a business serves, especially considered as a group with a particular character or status.

from Borrowed from French 'clientèle,' which traces back to Latin 'clientela' — the condition of being a 'cliens,' a dependent or follower attached to a more powerful patron in ancient Rome. The word rode a long road from 'person under someone's protection' to 'person who buys your coffee,' with the patron-client hierarchy quietly surviving as the modern vendor-customer one.

not just customers
implies loyalty, taste, repeat business
origin
from latin cliens, a protected dependent
flex factor
bars use it to sound exclusive, not empty
singular feel
treated as one body, not many wallets
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