| 单词 | cocktail piano |
| 释义 | > as lemmascocktail piano cocktail piano n. (a) a piano used for playing background music in cocktail bars or similar venues; a piano on which music of this type (characterized as softly melodious, light, and bland) is played; (b) a style of playing jazz piano which is characterized as softly melodious, light, and bland. ΚΠ 1937 Nevada State Jrnl. 12 June 3 (advt.) Entertainment by Bill Mosier at the cocktail piano. 1951 N.Y. Times 4 Mar. 110 Cy Walter, whose style is a few cuts above ‘cocktail piano’. 1958 Daily Mail 7 Oct. 8/3 Robin Douglas-Home tinkling his cocktail piano. 1994 Wire Aug. 21/1 The proximity of Hollywood invited aspirant black singers to emulate Nat King Cole's success as a ‘sepia Sinatra’—cooing blues and ballads over tinkling cocktail piano. < as lemmas |
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