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gin palace

British  
/ dʒɪn /

noun

  1. (formerly) a gaudy drinking house

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Favourites here include Eat17, Orford Saloon tapas and In Vino Veritas wine bar, in the village; And, close to God’s Own Junkyard neon art gallery, Ravenswood industrial estate has microbreweries and a gin palace.

From The Guardian Oct. 25, 2019

The interior of the Cauliflower Hotel in Ilford, Essex, is a fine example of a gin palace - a Victorian lavish bar built for selling gin.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2015

So a piano can hurt a guy bad, especially in a place like the deserted gin palace where “Ten Cents a Dance” takes place.

From New York Times Aug. 15, 2011

"Schiller calls on the gods to take him to their heaven with him; and ye would debase the Gods to a gin palace."

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

It seemed to unite the glare of a gin palace with the temperature of a Turkish bath.

From The Shadow of the Rope by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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