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n. (lady who lunches English)
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Ladies who lunch is a phrase often used to describe well-off, well-dressed women who meet for social luncheons, usually during the working week. Typically, the women involved are married and non-working. Normally the lunch is in a high-class restaurant, but could also take place in a department store during a shopping trip. Sometimes the lunch takes place under the pretext of raising money for charity.
Ladies who lunch is a phrase referring to a type of well-off, well-dressed women.
Ladies who lunch may also refer to:
- "The Ladies Who Lunch" (song), a song from the Broadway musical Company
- "The Ladies Who Lunch" (Desperate Housewives), an episode of Desperate Housewives
- "Ladies Who Lunch", a sketch on the Season 36 premiere of Saturday Night Live
Usage examples of "ladies who lunch".
Oh, there were still plenty of tourists and walkins, but a great many of the ladies who lunch, the very clientele Pretenses required in order to move the high-end merchandise, were giving the shop a wide berth.
She looked out of our booth at the Ladies Who Lunch, and her gaze was not kind.
Cynthia is not one of the Ladies Who Lunch, but she nonetheless busies herself mindlessly throughout the day, shopping, going to galleries or museums, sometimes catching an afternoon movie, generally killing the time between seven-thirty a.