estaminets
- plural of estaminet.
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
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)
I reached Ouderham, which was at that time out of the range of the fire; estaminets were getting ready to close for the night, the hour of ten having struck.
From S.O.S. Stand to! by Grant, Reginald
The estaminets make enormous profits from the sale of very weak beer.
From On the King's Service Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms by Logan, Innes
It burst into the narrow streets from estaminets where the soldiers danced, from halls, from drawing-rooms of confiscated German houses where officers of the "Grand Quartier Général" danced a triumph.
From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid
