The Ritz
Posh hotel chain
The Ritz refers to the chain of luxury hotels founded by César Ritz in the late 19th century, particularly the original in Paris.
The name has become synonymous with opulence and high society, spawning the adjective ritzy.
To put on the ritz is to make an ostentatious display of elegance or wealth.
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
- glamourFascinating, elegant attractiveness
- hotelCommercial lodging establishment
- opulentOstentatiously wealthy
- champagneEffervescent celebratory wine
elegance · Paris · London · suite · doorman · chandelier · caviar · high society · tuxedo · top hat · pearls · grandeur · ballroom · black tie · concierge · velvet · red carpet · marble
- historic hotelsWaldorf Astoria, Savoy, Biltmore, Fairmont, Grand Hotel
- hotelshotel staff, hotel room, accommodations, hotelier, innkeeper
- Historic RestaurantsFlorian
luxury and prestige
The Ritzflophouse
Cheap transient lodging
Motel 6 · hostel · roadside motel · no-tell motel · Super 8
social class signifier
The Ritzskid row
Impoverished urban district
poverty · squalor · tenement · shantytown · third-class