estaminet

American  

[es-ta-mee-ne] / ɛs ta miˈnɛ /

noun

French.

plural

estaminets

1. a bistro or small café.

---

estaminet British  

/ ɛstaminɛ /

noun

1. a small café, bar, or bistro, esp a shabby one

---

Etymology

Origin of estaminet

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

“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

We were having an omelette of huit-œufs, and une bouteille de vin rouge in a little estaminet way back, I remember; and I asked him what he thought.

From Men, Women and Guns by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

"Say, kid, do you ever read poetry?" remarked Bill to him one night soon after the episode of the brick-bats as they sat in an estaminet.

From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

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 Gibbons, Floyd