estaminet
Americannoun
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estaminets
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of estaminet
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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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 A. P. Herbert
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
We scrambled ashore and entered an estaminet where some sorry fellows were drinking with the landlord.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
Thinking of luckier comrades guzzling in country estaminets and town bistros, the runway builders began to grouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
As they passed through the mean little villages not a light was to be seen; even the estaminets were shut, but now and again a dog barked mournfully at its chain.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by John Hartman Morgan
In the way of entertainments we had little or nothing, and Maison Ponthieu itself boasted nothing more than one or two estaminets.
From The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman
It is an old convent, now occupied by irreligious tenants on the upper three floors, restaurants and estaminets on the lower floor.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons
I rode along in front of my section, balancing on this "Ship of the Desert" of mine, past all the same landmarks, cracked houses, windmills, estaminets, etc.
From Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather
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