estaminet
Americannoun
noun
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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
Usually these trials are conducted in the best bedroom of some estaminet, and the Court sits defensively with a vast white bed at their backs.
From The Secret Battle by Herbert, A. P.
"Are we all here?" said the lad, as they reached the third heap, which had been an estaminet before a British 9.2 had brought it down like a house of cards.
From With Haig on the Somme by Webb, Archibald
Only the Belgian woman, whose husband kept an estaminet, and made much money selling drink to the English soldiers, did not dread it.
From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by La Motte, Ellen Newbold
Thinking of luckier comrades guzzling in country estaminets and town bistros, the runway builders began to grouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tea shops and restaurants at the bases, audacious estaminets near the front, witness to the fact that we wage war with something of the spirit of schoolboys with pocket money to spend on “grub.”
From A Padre in France by Birmingham, George A.
Christmas Day was fortunately spent at Authie, and the various companies sat down in comfort in the estaminets to a splendid dinner.
From The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) by Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. (Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser)
At the different French estaminets in the village, and at the canteens, Tommy buys fresh eggs, milk, bread, and pastry.
From Over the Top by Empey, Arthur Guy
I told them that it was the reward of virtue, and only those who could be trusted were allowed to be housed in estaminets.
From The Great War As I Saw It by Scott, Frederick George
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