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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ritzy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We had dinner at the ritzy Drake Hotel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And now Chelsea is off to some equally ritzy college.
▪ He prefers to stay at home with his wife and two children, shunning ritzy Hollywood parties.
▪ Living in a ritzy hotel used to be the stuff of fantasy.
▪ Nearby on the same street is the Strand Arcade, a similar layer cake of ritzy shops.
▪ Pity it backfired during the lucky draw at Edinburgh's ritzy Prestonfield House Hotel recently.
▪ Still, the ritzy Back Bay has come roaring back, with historic row houses selling in the millions again.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ritzy

1920, from ritz + -y (2). Related: Ritziness.

Wiktionary
ritzy

a. elegant and luxurious

WordNet
ritzy
  1. adj. luxuriously elegant

  2. [also: ritziest, ritzier]

Wikipedia
Ritzy

Ritzy is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Richard Rosson and written by Elinor Glyn, Percy Heath, Robert N. Lee and George Marion, Jr.. The film stars Betty Bronson, James Hall, William Austin, Joan Standing, George Nichols and Roscoe Karns. The film was released on April 9, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.

Usage examples of "ritzy".

Ritzy, jazzy, noisy, dirty, uninhibited old London, greedy and gutsy and grabbing at life.

Betsy and Ginger had accompanied Louis on the stump, Ginger sat on the edge of Grange Hall st agings swinging her attractive legs and shredding the red, white, and blue bunting with her three-inch heels, all the while complaining of the rigors of political wifehood and wondering whether she was going to end up with her own ritzy rehab clinic someday, just like Betty Ford.

She always gave herself a spritz of the famous fragrance whenever she breezed through the ritzy store on Fifth Avenue, but she had never owned a single bottle of the expensive scent.

For always, after that simple marriage ceremony in Panama City when he and Gemma stood before the municipal juez in his cotton guayabera and took their unpretentious vows, Partridge nursed a conviction that simple ceremonies produced the better marriages andflamboyant, ritzier circuses were more likely to be followed by divorce.

Indian Creek Dam was conveniently going to restore water rights to the west side so Ladd Devine the Third could bless the few surviving small farmers of Milagro with a ritzy subdivision molded around an exotic and very green golf course.

Farther north in the Square, things were ritzier, around the TKTS discount ticket booth, where one could see the huge billboards that any out-of-towner who watched television would recognize.

He smoked a cigarette while he waited, and watched the local pond-life - a white guy in a leather deerstalker hat was dealing on the corner next to the Joy clothes shop, and from the Ritzy came a trio of trendy young black guys in sharp fawn leather jackets, with bleached blond hair and goatees.

It isn't ritzy, like the neighbouring suburb of Fox Chapel (where most of the homes are estates like the ones you used to see every week on Columbo), but it isn't like Monroeville, either, with its miles of malls, discount tyre warehouses, and dirty book emporiums.

Unperturbed in bib overalls and a ponytail, he lived with his wife and daughters in a ritzy section of the capital and drove a nonproduction BMW.

Interview the dashing wife of the finance minister, attend the ritziest Party you've ever imagined, and all on the payroll.

The thing was, he owned the building, and even though it wasn't the ritziest place in the world, she suspected he could get a lot more in rent than what she had been paying.

He must have freaked when he saw all the blood, `cause he left some of the ritziest stereo equipment this side of heaven, plus enough silverware to blind your average hophead.

A glorious fiery plunge from the top of the city's ritziest apartment.

Tony explained to anybody who was blunt enough to inquire how an auto parts salesman and a grocery store cashier could afford a home in one of the ritziest neighborhoods in Bahia Beach.

Another went by my head as I struggled with Father Vincent, and a third shattered the safety glass of a ritzy sports car parked beside me.