亚洲网紅露点

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lace-curtain

[ leys-kur-tn ]

adjective

Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.
  1. characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class:

    Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.



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Born Katherine Ursula Towle, 鈥渓ace-curtain Irish鈥 in Dorchester, Mass., and educated at Radcliffe, she longed to be a reporter, and married one, Lindesay Parrott, who later worked for The New York Times.

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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.

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When Mike climbs the social ladder out of Southie, his old friends mock him as 鈥渓ace-curtain Irish.鈥

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It鈥檚 THE club to belong to if you live in the lace-curtain sections of the Valley.

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The New Negroes were hardly alone among aspirational Americans in the pathos and dignity of their respectability; one sees the same attempt to outwit the oppressor by becoming like the oppressor among the lace-curtain Irish or the stained-glass Jews.

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