Peacock Alley

I supposed he would want to go down with as little ostentation as possible, so took him by the elevator which enters the dining-room without passing through the long corridor known as "Peacock Alley", because of its being a favorite place for handsomely dressed fashionables of the national capital.

There was a lot of fool humbuggery about these plutocratic hang-outs, with their "peacock alleys" where women strutted to show their clothes,