cocktail music

English

Etymology

Typically played in cocktail bars.

Noun

cocktail music (uncountable)

lounge music
- 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:
  […] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

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