英语词汇ritzy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ritzy. César Ritz (1850–1918), Swiss restaurateur and hotel manager, built his first Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1898. By hiring the master chef Georges-Auguste Escoffier and adopting such prac- tices as sleeping in every room at least once in order to test the quality of its mattress, this perfectionist made his hotel the greatest of la belle epoque and himself the greatest hotelier in the history of the western world. Ritzes opened in London, New York, and other cities, and ritzy or like the Ritz quickly be- came American slang for anything lavish and costly. The word can mean vulgarly ostentatious, too; putting on the ritz means to put on the dog or showing off, and to ritz a person means to behave ritzily or superciliously toward him.

词汇	ritzy
词源	ritzy. César Ritz (1850–1918), Swiss restaurateur and hotel manager, built his first Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1898. By hiring the master chef Georges-Auguste Escoffier and adopting such prac- tices as sleeping in every room at least once in order to test the quality of its mattress, this perfectionist made his hotel the greatest of la belle epoque and himself the greatest hotelier in the history of the western world. Ritzes opened in London, New York, and other cities, and ritzy or like the Ritz quickly be- came American slang for anything lavish and costly. The word can mean vulgarly ostentatious, too; putting on the ritz means to put on the dog or showing off, and to ritz a person means to behave ritzily or superciliously toward him.
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