cocktail lounge

noun

: a public room (as in a hotel, club, or restaurant) where cocktails and other drinks are served

Examples of cocktail lounge in a Sentence

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On the ground floor is a cocktail lounge with burgundy leather booths and an emerald marble bar, and on the second, a 50-seat dining room with velvet banquettes and dim lighting. Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025 Ophelia Enclosed in a gorgeous 360-degree greenhouse terrace on the 26th floor of Beekman Tower, Ophelia is an elegant cocktail lounge housed within a 1928-era Art Deco building. Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025 Bruce Moffett’s new cocktail lounge channels Charlotte’s prohibition-era party scene. Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 4 Apr. 2025 Gorgeous, the cocktail lounge that opened last October on the rooftop of NOVEL RiNo, seems to be a distillation of the group’s philosophy. Colin Wrenn, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cocktail lounge

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cocktail lounge was in 1934

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“Cocktail lounge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cocktail%20lounge. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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