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"A display of ostentatious elegance."
],
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"(informal, usually preceded by the) A display of ostentatious elegance."
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"ref": "1937, Collier's, volume 99, page 69",
"text": "What would I do with them in the room except dream all night through of ritzing around the world with swells?",
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},
{
"ref": "2020, Christopher Knowlton, Bubble in the Sun, page 268",
"text": "Fuller remembered visiting Hammond in his office. “He was dressed like a movie senator with black ribbon pince-nez. Almost ritzed me out of the office.”",
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"To behave in an ostentatiously elegant manner."
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"(informal) To behave in an ostentatiously elegant manner."
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"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2020, Christopher Knowlton, Bubble in the Sun, page 268",
"text": "Fuller remembered visiting Hammond in his office. “He was dressed like a movie senator with black ribbon pince-nez. Almost ritzed me out of the office.”",
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"To behave in an ostentatiously elegant manner."
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"(informal) To behave in an ostentatiously elegant manner."
],
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