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

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Example Sentences

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dramshop

I was disconcerted at being found in a dramshop alone, for I thought, after the bag episode, he might fancy us a family of inebriates. 

From A Cathedral Courtship by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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

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 Cornelius Weygandt

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 Leo Tolstoy, Count

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 Émile Gaboriau

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