英语词汇lace-curtain irish的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lace-curtain irish
词源	lace-curtain Irish. American immigrants of the middle- class, or aspiring to it. They were often successful and some- times rich and loved their expensive lace curtains. The term is first recorded in about 1930. See shanty.
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