| 单词 | lobster palace |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslobster palace lobster palace n. U.S. (now historical) an expensive and lavish restaurant of a type associated with New York City's theatre district in the early 20th cent. ΚΠ 1902 Hoosier State (Newport, Indiana) 2 Apr. It [sc. the theater] represents a few hour's rest, the interval between dinner and a supper at one of the lobster palaces of which New York will soon principally consist. 1912 Collier's 9 Nov. 11/2 Did they not see him daily in company with political leaders dining in lobster palaces? 1933 S. Walker Night Club Era 201 Once there were lobster palaces and cabarets; now it is cut-rate. 2009 New Yorker 14 Sept. 41/2 During Prohibition sophisticates lamented that the libertine playground of years past—tango pirates, booze forts, lobster palaces—had given way to an unrecognizably anodyne play-pen for hayseeds and soda jerks. < as lemmas |
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