ritz
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Etymology edit
Back-formation from ritzy.
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ritz (uncountable)
- (informal, usually preceded by the) A display of ostentatious elegance.
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ritz (third-person singular simple present ritzes, present participle ritzing, simple past and past participle ritzed)
- (informal) To behave in an ostentatiously elegant manner.
- 1937, Collier's, volume 99, page 69:
- What would I do with them in the room except dream all night through of ritzing around the world with swells?
- 2020, Christopher Knowlton, Bubble in the Sun, page 268:
- Fuller remembered visiting Hammond in his office. “He was dressed like a movie senator with black ribbon pince-nez. Almost ritzed me out of the office.”
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- Puttin' on the Ritz on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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