dramshop

American  

[dram-shop] / ˈdræmˌʃɒp /

noun

1. bar; barroom; saloon.

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Etymology

Origin of dramshop

First recorded in 1715–25; dram + shop

Example Sentences

Britons still debated the truth about the Duke of Hamilton and his friends�in Glasgow so violently that dramshop dialecticians often came to blows.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

These men, who under the leadership of the tall lad were drinking in the dramshop that morning, had brought the publican some skins from the factory and for this had had drink served them.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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

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