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Back Bay
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English
Proper noun
Back Bay 1
en neighbourhood city/Boston s/Massachusetts c/USA.
en 1920 w:F. Scott Fitzgerald w:The Cut-Glass Bowl w:Scribner's Magazine In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents—punch bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, wine-glasses, ice-cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and vases—for, though cut glass was nothing new in the nineties, it was then especially busy reflecting the dazzling light of fashion from the Back Bay to the fastnesses of the Middle West.
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Back Bay, Boston