estaminet
noun
a bistro or small café.
estaminets
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pluralof estaminet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Thinking of luckier comrades guzzling in country estaminets and town bistros, the runway builders began to grouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the estaminets of France and Flanders they danced with frowzy peasant girls to the tune of a penny-in-the-slot piano, or, failing the girls, danced with one another.
From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs
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
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 Arthur Guy Empey
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 Frederick George Scott
