English Dictionary

Peacock Alley

noun

Any of a number of specific named hotel foyers, first and most notably that of the Waldorf–Astoria in New York City. / (historical, US) Any hotel foyer or similar where upper-class women go to be seen.

I met him in the Peacock Alley of the hotel.

意味（1）

Any of a number of specific named hotel foyers, first and most notably that of the Waldorf–Astoria in New York City.

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.

意味（2）

(historical, US) Any hotel foyer or similar where upper-class women go to be seen.

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