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César Ritz (1850-1918) earned worldwide renown for the luxurious hotels bearing his name in London and Paris. (The Ritz-Carlton hotel company is a contemporary descendant of these enterprises.) Although they were by no means the first to cater to high-end clients, Ritz’s hotels quickly earned reputations as symbols of opulence. F. Scott Fitzgerald, a writer who often focused on the fashionably wealthy, titled one of his short stories “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” and the phrase “to put on the ritz” means “to indulge in ostentatious display.” The adjective ritzy, describing either something fancy or stylish, or the haughty attitudes of the wealthy elite, first checked into the English language in 1919.
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Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
Think of it this way: Paramount wants to move its streaming offering from the ritzy mountaintop mansion where it’s lived the past few years and relocate it to a still very nice duplex condo where another owner (or owners) helps pay for building upkeep.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2024
Also, former state House Speaker Lee Chatfield and his wife, Stephanie, were charged with embezzling public and private funds to support a lavish lifestyle of fine dining, ritzy hotels and trips to exotic locations.
—Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2024
Her offices are local, but many believe her residence is actually in ritzy Gramercy Park, not the East Village.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2024
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“Ritzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ritzy. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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