dramshop
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dramshop
Example Sentences
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We should not go to the theatre as we go to a chemist's or a dramshop, but as we go to a dinner where the food we need is taken with pleasure and excitement....
From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius
The proprietors were of all degrees: here was the great house of a lord, there a miserable dramshop.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various
"Today each man is struggling to get at the pharaoh, as he might at the keeper of a dramshop," muttered the adjutant.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Curtin, Jeremiah
The tavern of sixty years ago, besides answering the purposes of the modern hotel, was the dramshop of the frontier.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 by Various
I believe it was a munificent reward for some service he had rendered a great nobleman at the time when my grandmother, who is now dead, kept a dramshop called the Poivriere.
From The Count's Millions by Gaboriau, Émile
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