Ritzian

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• ritz — high quality, superiority, 1910 (Ritzian, adj., is attested by 1908), in reference to the luxurious Ritz hotels in N.Y., London, Paris, etc., commemorating Swiss hotelier César Ritz (1850 1918). To put on the ritz assume an air of superiority is… …   Etymology dictionary