英语词汇dinner on horseback的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

dinner on horseback. A famous dinner given by American millionaire C. K. Billings at Louis Sherry’s restaurant in 1903. The guests, all men, lounged in the saddle astride horses that had been brought to the ballroom by elevator. The diners ate pheasant from feed bags and drank champagne from large rub- ber casks. It was said that Billings spent $50,000 for the feast, including the planting of sod on the ballroom floor. A couple of years later, in 1905, millionaire Diamond Jim Brady topped Billings with a dinner he gave for his racehorse Gold Heels; it cost over $100,000, including the $60,000 he spent for diamond jewelry for each guest.

词汇	dinner on horseback
词源	dinner on horseback. A famous dinner given by American millionaire C. K. Billings at Louis Sherry’s restaurant in 1903. The guests, all men, lounged in the saddle astride horses that had been brought to the ballroom by elevator. The diners ate pheasant from feed bags and drank champagne from large rub- ber casks. It was said that Billings spent $50,000 for the feast, including the planting of sod on the ballroom floor. A couple of years later, in 1905, millionaire Diamond Jim Brady topped Billings with a dinner he gave for his racehorse Gold Heels; it cost over $100,000, including the $60,000 he spent for diamond jewelry for each guest.
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