英语词汇window-shopping的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

window-shopping. A. T. Stewart’s cast-iron palace, built in 1862, was the first store encountered when walking north along New York’s Ladies Mile. At the top of this stretch of Broadway and Sixth Avenue between Ninth and 23rd Streets was Stern Brothers. Many early American department stores, such as R. H. Macy’s, Lord and Taylor, and B. Altman, lined the elegant, cobblestoned streets of this shopping district, which played host daily to exquisitely clad ladies in flowing gowns and feath- ered bonnets who alighted from their horse-drawn carriages and floated toward the grand emporiums or came on the Sixth Avenue El. Women promenaded in their best here up until the end of the century, when the shopping district began to move uptown, but many of the old buildings that housed the stores still remain. So does the term window-shopping, which may have been inspired by the women who strolled by the displays these great stores designed for them. The Ladies Mile Historic District extends from Union Square at 23rd Street. For early photographs of the stores see my The Grand Emporiums (1978). See ladies mile.

词汇	window-shopping
词源	window-shopping. A. T. Stewart’s cast-iron palace, built in 1862, was the first store encountered when walking north along New York’s Ladies Mile. At the top of this stretch of Broadway and Sixth Avenue between Ninth and 23rd Streets was Stern Brothers. Many early American department stores, such as R. H. Macy’s, Lord and Taylor, and B. Altman, lined the elegant, cobblestoned streets of this shopping district, which played host daily to exquisitely clad ladies in flowing gowns and feath- ered bonnets who alighted from their horse-drawn carriages and floated toward the grand emporiums or came on the Sixth Avenue El. Women promenaded in their best here up until the end of the century, when the shopping district began to move uptown, but many of the old buildings that housed the stores still remain. So does the term window-shopping, which may have been inspired by the women who strolled by the displays these great stores designed for them. The Ladies Mile Historic District extends from Union Square at 23rd Street. For early photographs of the stores see my The Grand Emporiums (1978). See ladies mile.
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