estaminet

[ es-ta-mee-ne ]

/ ɛs ta miˈnɛ /

noun, plural es·ta·mi·nets [es-ta-mee-ne] /ɛs ta miˈnɛ/. French.

a bistro or small café.

Nearby words

Origin of estaminet

First recorded in 1805–15

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Examples from the Web for estaminet

If the woman of the estaminet was right, even now those woods might conceal a German scout.
Wounded and a Prisoner of War|Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay
But I have no doubt it would have been just as popular if it had called itself a café or even an estaminet.
A Padre in France|George A. Birmingham
The fact that there is not an estaminet within five kilometres nullifies its value as a military objective.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 11, 1919|Various
We had dinner at an estaminet—quite a good dinner, but a mad female served us.
Letters from France|Isaac Alexander Mack

Here and there a messenger might be sent back to an estaminet and return to the war with comforts within a couple of hours.
The Bonadventure|Edmund Blunden

British Dictionary definitions for estaminet

estaminet

/ French (ɛstaminɛ) /

noun

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

Word Origin for estaminet

C19: from French, perhaps from Walloon dialect staminet manger

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Word Origin and History for estaminet

estaminet

1814, from French, "a café in which smoking is allowed" (17c.), of unknown origin; some suggest a connection to French estamine, a type of open woolen fabric used for making sieves, etc., from Latin stamineus "made of thread." Or from Walloon stamen "post to which a cow is tied at a feeding trough," from Proto-Germanic *stamniz (see stem (n.)).