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Ritz   /rɪts/   Listen
Ritz

noun
1.
Swiss hotelier who created a chain of elegant hotels (1850-1918).  Synonym: Cesar Ritz.
2.
Ostentatious display of elegance.
3.
An ostentatiously elegant hotel.



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"Ritz" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rayne said: "That's all right, Hargreave. Indeed, I wanted to talk to you. Look here," he went on, "I want you to go to Madrid after old Mr. Lloyd goes there, as no doubt he will. You'll stay at the Ritz in the Plaza de Canovas, and ask no questions. I'll send you instructions—or perhaps ...
— The Golden Face - A Great 'Crook' Romance • William Le Queux

... am," said Craven. "I thought your beat lay rather in the direction of the Carlton, the Ritz, ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens

... morning, and Beale stepped briskly through the vestibule of the Ritz-Carlton, and declining the elevator went up the stairs two at a time. He burst into the room where Kitson and the girl were standing by ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace

... but only occasional pedestrians and the accidental clatter of a horse-cab now and then. And the Danube rolled through the stillness silently. I fell in with a late-going working man coming off a day shift. He piloted me to the "Ritz," home of Allied Commissions and delegates of all kinds. That there should be a room there was unlikely enough, but it was possible to persuade the clerk to telephone to various obscure establishments on the "other side of the river." It is ...
— Europe—Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham

... these days immensely and made themselves at home in the principal hotels, paying scrupulously for their accommodations. General von Hindenburg stopped at the Ritz-Carlton, Admiral von Tirpitz at the Bellevue-Stratford and others at the Walton and the Adelphia. Several Prussian generals established themselves at the Continental Hotel because of their interest in the fact that Edward VII of England ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett



Words linked to "Ritz" :   hotel manager, flash, hotelman, hotelier, hosteller, hotelkeeper, hotel, fanfare, ostentation, colloquialism



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