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palm court
Also with capital initials.
[f. palm n.1 + court n.1 1.]
A large room or patio, esp. of a hotel, named from the palm-trees used as decoration. Now usu. in attrib. use, esp. palm-court music, the kind of light music associated with the palm court (also ellipt.); palm-court orchestra, a small band which plays such music.
These associations are now regarded as old-fashioned.
1908Westm. Gaz. 12 Mar. 10/2 The lounge or palm⁓court of to-day was merely a revival of the Greek hall. 1910Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1151 Plymouth, Royal Hotel..Magnificent Palm Court. Orchestra plays daily. 1930E. Waugh Vile Bodies x. 197 The manager of the ‘Imperial’..upheld the integrity of British hotel⁓keeping. Tea, he explained, was served daily in the Palm Court, with orchestra on Thursdays and Sundays, between the hours of four and six. 1945S. Hughes in C. Madge Pilot Papers 89 The ‘light’ music public thinks of the music it wants in terms..of palm-court orchestras. 1955Radio Times 22 Apr. 13/2 David Galliver sings with the Palm Court Orchestra in Grand Hotel at 9.0 tonight. 1959Observer 21 June 18/4 The sugary tones of the Palm Court orchestra are never far away. 1962Ibid. 28 Oct. 23/7 A retreat into daydream-fantasy that eventually either nauseates or numbs, as palm-court music does. 1966M. Brewer Man against Fear xvi. 171, I recognised a popular Palm Court number from Traviata. 1969Times 30 Apr. (Brighton Suppl.) p. i/3 The bingo hall with a palm court bar and lounge. 1970E. Lee Music of People vii. 138 Music which would now be called ‘Palm Court’ was still widely popular. 1973J. Ryder Trevayne (1974) vi. 50 Trevayne had gone to a corner pay phone to call his wife at the Plaza..but..he was told she wasn't in the Palm Court. 1977J. Wainwright Do Nothin' viii. 124 He sometimes plays pure ‘Palm Court’..without that extra lilt which can make a band swing. |