cocktail music

English

Etymology

Typically played in cocktail bars.

Noun

cocktail music (uncountable)

lounge music
- 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter III, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 884653065; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN:
  
  […] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

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