estaminet
Americannoun
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estaminets
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of estaminet
First recorded in 1805–15
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“On the way out, the lady of the estaminet said to the Resistance boys, ‘Your friend isn’t from round here, is he?’
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2016
For Daumier, everything worth drawing happened right under his nose, in the railway carriage, the estaminet, the cellar, the butcher's shop or the lawcourts.
From Time Magazine Archive
As we stopped at the door of the estaminet Lt.-Col.
From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith
Marie at the village estaminet received five of them all fitted in neat leather rolls and inscribed with as many different sets of initials.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons
Here and there a messenger might be sent back to an estaminet and return to the war with comforts within a couple of hours.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
Thinking of luckier comrades guzzling in country estaminets and town bistros, the runway builders began to grouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides its club—at which I recollect that Heidsieck 1906 was then only ten francs the bottle—and its estaminets, the town held few attractions.
From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Geoffrey Keith Rose
On the 13th March the non-commissioned officers celebrated the anniversary of the Battalion's first arrival in France by arranging a kind of concert in one of the estaminets in Estaires.
From The Story of the "9th King's" in France by Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
The men soon learnt that the estaminets were the equivalent in France of the public houses at home, and thither they repaired in the evening to spend their time.
From The Story of the "9th King's" in France by Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
While at Dranoutre we associated with the inhabitants, in the stores and estaminets.
From The Emma Gees by Herbert Wes McBride
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