Peacock Alley
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Any of a number of specific named hotel foyers, first and most notably that of the Waldorf–Astoria in New York City.
— I supposed he would want to go down with as little ostentation as possible, so took him by the elevator which enters the dining-room without passing through the long corridor known as "Peacock Alley", because of its being a favorite place for handsomely dressed fashionables of the national capital.
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Any hotel foyer or similar area where upper-class women congregate in order to be seen.
— There was a lot of fool humbuggery about these plutocratic hang-outs, with their "peacock alleys" where women strutted to show their clothes,
词源
The main corridor connecting the two buildings comprising the Waldorf–Astoria was given this nickname by the press in New York City in reference to wealthy patrons (especially women) who would go there to show off their finery (compare peacock (“strut proudly”)). The name then came to refer generically to the foyer of any such upper-class hotel, or similar gathering place. First appears c. 1904 in Real New York by Rupert Hughes.
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