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▪ I. lounge, n.|laʊndʒ|
[f. lounge v.]
1. a. An act, spell, or course of lounging; a leisurely walk, a saunter, stroll; also, a lounging gait or manner of reclining.
1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. II. 177 The gentlemen had arranged a morning lounge at Tattersall's. 1824T. Hook Say. & Doings I. 18 The disembarrassed lounge on her own ottoman. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xvi. (1859) 435, I am off to have a lounge with him. 1837Lytton Maltravers ii. i. I. 166 What else have we to do with our mornings, we women?..Our life is a lounge from the cradle to the grave. 1860Thackeray Round. Papers viii. Wks. 1869 XX. 85 ‘The Prince's lounge’ was a peculiar manner of walking which the young bucks imitated. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxx. 405 When we went out for a lounge after luncheon. 1889D. C. Murray Danger. Cats-paw 18 Esden had slackened his pace to a mere lounge.
b. A pastime. Also slang (Eton and Cambridge), ‘a treat, a chief meal’ (Farmer).
1788Trifler No. 21. 276 If..you have invented a new lounge, communicate it in your next. 1844Disraeli Coningsby i. vi. I. 69, I don't care for dinner. Breakfast is my lounge.
2. a. A place for lounging; a gathering of loungers.
1775Sheridan Rivals i. i, But pray, Mr. Fag, what kind of a place is this Bath?..Fag...'tis a good lounge. 1798Jane Austen Northang. Abb. (1833) I. v. 20 Every search for him was unsuccessful, in morning lounges, or evening assemblies. 1798Monthly Mag. VI. 171 If a man were asked to take a walk into the High-street in a morning—‘He voted it a bad lounge.’ 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. IV. 135 Her house..was voted to be the most delightful lounge in London. a1865Greville Mem. ii. (1885) II. 170 This is a great lounge, attended by all the people of the town.
b. The drawing-room of a private house; the public sitting-room in a hotel or institution. Also transf.
1881J. T. Slugg Remin. Manch. xxvi. 306 The lounge or drawing-room..was extremely elegant. 1908Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 4/6 London hotels are extending their lounges. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. i. 186 The sea..seemed an annexe of the livingroom... She learned later that Daphne called this the lounge. 1954J. Betjeman A Few Late Chrysanthemums 94 It's ever so close in the lounge dear, But the vestibule's comfy for tea. 1965M. Bradbury Stepping Westward iv. 181 Expressly for the purpose of hunting down Walker and bringing him to the English department faculty lounge, wherein the faculty were even now assembled. 1973Houston (Texas) Chron. Mag. People, Places, Pleasures 14 Oct. 21/1, I am in a mobile lounge which is about to roll out from Dulles Airport to the supersonic Concorde. 1973Times 8 Dec. 26/4 Burns Hotel... Licensed restaurant, bar lounge.
c. Ellipt. for lounge-coat, -jacket, -suit.
1893J. Tomlin Bond St. Syst. Cutting 44 There are many different styles in which the Lounge is produced. 1905Daily Chron. 16 Mar. 8/7 (Advt.), Good coat presser and baister for lounges and morning coats. 1928Tailor & Cutter 29 Nov. 899/3 I'll take the lad; and..in six calendar months he will be able to make a lounge. 1968A. A. Whife First Course Gentlemen's Garment Cutting (ed. 4) 69 The Reefer, Sports Jacket, Hacking Jacket..are designed on lines which originate in the basic structure of the Lounge.
3. A kind of sofa or easy chair on which one can lie at full length.
1830J. F. Watson Ann. Philadelphia 183 Formerly they had couches of worsted damask..in lieu of what we now call sophas or lounges. 1845Knickerbocker XXV. 446 The hard-bottomed chairs were the same, and the lounge, and the tall mahogany clock. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxvi. 240 The graceful bamboo lounges were amply supplied with cushions. 1895B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 46 The patient was promoted into a cane lounge in the sitting-room. 1915in B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore (1949) iii. ii. 538 He stayed in the barn nights..and slept on an ol' lounge he carried out from the house. 1972E. Staebler Cape Breton Harbour xvi. 142 There is always some one sitting on the rocker or on the wooden lounge built into the corner.
4. attrib. (‘suitable for lounging’), as lounge-book, lounge-chair, lounge-coat, lounge-hour, lounge-jacket, lounge-suit, lounge-wear; cf. lounging vbl. n. b; also (sense 2 b) lounge-diner (also lounge/diner), lounge-hall; lounge bar, a bar in a public-house which is furnished with the amenities of a lounge; lounge lizard slang (orig. U.S.), a man who spends his time idling in fashionable society, esp. in search of a wealthy patroness.
1937Hotel & Catering Management Sept. 23/1 Smoke⁓room or *lounge bars are obviously larger than cocktail bars, and provision has to be made for the serving of draught beers. 1971‘H. Calvin’ Poison Chasers vii. 83 Two of the security men..came into the public bar, and the rest of the customers..went into the lounge bar.
1800Coleridge in Sir H. Davy's Rem. (1858) 82, I am compelled..to give a volume of letters from Germany, which will be a decent *lounge book, and not an atom more.
1902Westm. Gaz. 25 Jan. 2/1 A sort of shudder sweeps over the limp forms in the *lounge-chairs.
1898Ibid. 22 Sept. 8/2 Frock coats, and tail coats, and *lounge coats, and top coats.
1961Evening Standard 3 July 23/4 (Advt.), Modern s/d house... Hall, *lounge/diner, kitchenette. 1966Lounge-diner [see garden gnome s.v. garden n. 6]. 1974Country Life 7 Mar. (Suppl.) 21/1 Excellent Family House..study/TV room, 31 ft. lounge/diner, breakfasting kitchen.
1910Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1046 Lord Warden Hotel... Orchestra plays..in the beautiful *lounge hall every evening. 1933D. C. Peel Life's Enchanted Cup xi. 126 This house..contained.. what house agents now call a lounge-hall. 1939O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 66 The luxury flat..is divided up..into a dining-room, drawing-room, lounge-hall, three bed, two bath, a kitchen and all the usual offices.
1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 311 A Boxing Match took place in Conduit-Street during the *lounge hours.
1887E. B. Giles Hist. Cutting in Eng. i. 70 When repose is required [we use] the lounge jacket or dressing gown. 1899R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xxviii. 284 The billycock and the lounge jacket are, I think, my strong point.
1918Hatchet 4 Apr. 39/1 (caption) Nautical *lounge lizards. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 10 Apr. 4/4 The delicate, poetic cast of features, and the misplaced eyebrow adorning the nether lip of these lounge lizards, denizens of dansants and cabarets. 1926Punch 17 Nov. 534/1 Formal recognition of those firmly attached appendages of Society, the lounge-lizards. 1973Times 29 Dec. 7/7 The {pstlg}50 a week contract which..lets her keep her lounge lizard husband, Queckett, in the manner to which he is accustomed, lacks conviction.
1901Westm. Gaz. 25 Nov. 5/2 A navy blue serge *lounge suit.
1969Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 3 Now—and all through the summer—Sears has the answer to just what you're looking for in *loungewear. 1974News-Palladium & Herald-Press (Benton Harbor, Mich.) 8 May (Advt. Suppl.), See this utterly feminine loungewear in enchanting prints.
▸ orig. U.S. Music of a kind that might be played in a bar, cocktail lounge, or similar public meeting place, and which is typically characterized as softly melodious and unobtrusive; such music as a genre; (also, esp. when of recorded music) easy-listening music. Freq. attrib., esp. in lounge music.
Although the term is sometimes used rather dismissively to imply blandness, lounge music (esp. in its recorded form) was the subject of revived interest in the 1990s and some later use also suggests an (often somewhat kitsch) appeal: cf. loungecore n.
[1958Washington Post 2 Feb. e3/2 Even those who cashed in on the boom feel a nostalgia for a pastoral symphony now smothered by a cacophony of roaring Jupiters, screaming jets, cocktail lounge music and Northern accents.] 1978N.Y. Times 9 Apr. 53/2 Backed by barely amplified guitar and bass guitar and whispering drums, played in a manner that veered from lobotomized rockabilly to lounge music. 1988San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 27 Oct. d11 The emphasis always shifts back to Mona and Barney, culminating in a romantic and sexual interlude to the sons of Frank Sinatra, which Barney considers lounge music. 1995Guardian 16 Oct. ii. 11/3 Godlike she let her voice soar over the music, which consisted of the most tasteful lounge-pop three Nashville sidemen could make. 1996Rip Mar. 29/2 At times punk, at times pure lounge, at times spacey, and at times totally silly. 1997Daily Tel. 20 Feb. 15/4 For some time, ‘lounge’ music—late Sixties easy-listening music, with a strong bias towards soft Latin rhythms, Hammond organs and the bongo drum—has been gaining ground on the club circuit.
▪ II. lounge, v.|laʊndʒ|
Also 7 loundge, 8 Sc. lunge; and in derivatives 7 lundge, 8 lownge.
[Of obscure origin; perh. suggested by lungis.]
1. intr. To move indolently, resting between-whiles, or leaning on something for support. Also with about, away, in, out, up. (In the early instances perh. rather: To skulk, to slouch.)
1508Dunbar Flyting w. Kennedie 174 Ay loungand, lyk ane loikman on ane ledder. 1639J. Clarke Parœmiologia 259 He loundge's as a dog that had lost his tayle. 1755Ramsay To Jas. Clerk 3 Works 1877 II. 307 Whase owsen lunges o'er a plain Of wide extent. 1757Smollett Reprisal i. i, While I go down to the cabin..you may lounge about and endeavour to over-hear their conversation. 1838Lytton Alice 131 Vargrave lounged into the billiard-room. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Channings xvii, Roland lounged in, not more presentable than the rest. 1863F. A. Kemble Resid. in Georgia 26 Filthy negroes, who lounge in and out. 1874Deutsch Rem. 176 Egyptian officials, lounging about armed with weighty sticks. 1900Blackw. Mag. Aug. 260/2 He would lounge up and say—‘Now come really’.
2. To recline lazily, to loll.
1746Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 42 Eart lunging, eart squatting upon thy tether Eend. 1778Ibid., Gloss., Lounging or Lundging, leaning on any Thing, such as a Gate or a Stile, like a lazy Creature that hath nothing else to do. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 246 The complaint..shows itself by..an unwonted desire to lounge and loll about. 1827Lytton Pelham I. xii. 39 You must not lounge on your chair. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop ii, The other stood lounging with his foot upon a chair. 1850Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 162 Lounging upon their couches. 1859C. Barker Associat. Princ. iii. 63 'Squires..lounging on the rushes before the great hall fire.
3. To pass time indolently or without definite occupation; to idle.
1671Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl., Lounge, cunctari, movari, cessare, vide Lungis. 1755Johnson, Lounge, to idle; to live lazily. 1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. v. (Bohn 1848) 197 It would be at least some amusement..to lounge over what the other artists had done. 1856Ld. Cockburn Mem. (1874) vii. 393 Scott..breakfasted and lounged from nine to eleven.
4. trans. To pass (time, etc.) away (rarely out) with lounging; also, † to lounge in (a place) (obs.).
1776Dk. Richmond in Burke's Corr. (1844) II. 113, I suppose you lounge away whole months whistling for want of thought. 1810Splendid Follies I. 129, I never go to the play for any entertainment, except kicking up a row and lounging the lobbies. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park (1851) 67 They all returned to the house together, there to lounge away the time as they could with chit-chat. 1871Burr Ad Fidem (ed. 2) iii. 39 The able-bodied and able-minded person who..lounges out his youth and lounges out his manhood. 1879Froude Cæsar 104 He then returned to Rome to lounge away the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence.
▪ III. lounge
variant of lunge; obs. form of lung. |