Ritz
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- proper noun
- /rɪts/
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Ritz
- Last summer, I dropped by the new Ritz-Carlton, sparkling and surreal, the site of the old Intourist hotel.
And unexpectedly, that bartender from the Hemingway Bar in Paris at the Ritz was at the event.
- And unexpectedly, that bartender from the Hemingway Bar in Paris at the Ritz was at the event.
- Now, there was another guy who had a big ego and couldn't keep his mouth shut, and he committed suicide at the Ritz Carlton in Boston.
- I go Jackie Chan, he goes meet me at my cigar bar at the Ritz Carlton tonight.
- And he checked into the Boston Ritz and he wore a tuxedo and he took an overdose of nortriptyline, which is antidepressant.
- So last year I went to Orlando for Gym Con and we stayed at the Ritz.
- He walked through the bottom of the Ritz is a tunnel to get to the thing he moved.
Examples
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From his apartment at the Ritz, the author of Is God French?
Academic text (1998) -
We'll go to the Ritz and catch him before he's finished dinner.
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But yeah, guys, stay at the Ritz because you can see the world.
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What we do do is head right for Paris and spend our Christmas holiday at the Ritz.
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Friday night, the Ritz, dinner, 8:00 sharp.
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"I ran into him at the Ritz bar after you and I talked by telephone," Clay said.
Fiction book (1995) -
Hyde Park Corner, Ritz Hotel, Bond Street and Oxford Circus.
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You know, Mae, I dreamed last night... that I was having dinner at The Ritz.
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Right now I am staying at the Ritz Carlton here in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
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I booked a luxurious suite at the Ritz for my anniversary celebration.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Ritz comes from the name of a Swiss hotel owner, César Ritz, who opened very fancy hotels at the end of the 1800s. His name became a short way to say 'very stylish and expensive', so we still say 'put on the ritz' or call something ritzy when it is very fancy.