lace-curtain
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The flavors may suggest a lace-curtain bistro in Lyon, but the ethereal lightness of the potatoes says Mena, and only Mena.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022
It’s THE club to belong to if you live in the lace-curtain sections of the Valley.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 30, 2020
Both parents, Dery tells us, “were of Irish descent, though the Garveys — moneyed, Republican, Episcopalian — were the lace-curtain variety, several rungs up the socioeconomic ladder from the working-class, Democrat, devoutly Catholic Goreys.”
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2018
But Frazier, who went on from his lace-curtain upbringing to acquire a Harvard degree and Brahmin persona, views himself as a romantic in mourning for his era's lost grace and style.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's a very nice place run by an old Irishwoman who has a lace-curtain establishment in the basement.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
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