lace curtain

Example Sentences

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Born Katherine Ursula Towle, “lace-curtain Irish” 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.

From New York Times

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

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

From Golf Digest

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.

From The New Yorker

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