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Feature of society perhaps (6,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gossip column

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'perhaps' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.

'feature of society' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'feature' could be 'column' (I have seen 'regular feature' mean 'column' so perhaps 'feature' could also mean 'column') and 'column' is located in the answer.
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is found in the answer.
'society' could be 's' (common abbreviation in names of organisations) and 's' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for gossip column that I've seen before include "Newspaper's tittle-tattle section" , "Part of daily" , "Celebrity tittle-tattle in paper" , "Newspaper feature with reports of stars' doings" , "part of paper?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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