nitery

[nahy-tuh-ree]

noun

Informal.

plural

niteries 

1. a nightclub.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nitery¹

1930–35, Amer.; nite (respelling of night ) + -ery

Example Sentences

In braises, stews and ragouts, Gizzi Erskine, the food writer and chef at The Nitery in central London, would replace wine with a gastrique.

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At her forthcoming Covent Garden restaurant, The Nitery, she will be offering steak tartare with bone marrow dripping on Marmite toast with cured egg yolk.

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“When last caught in a nitery, the boys were a disappointment,” a Billboard reviewer wrote after a 1949 performance by Mr. Benson and Mann at the Palace.

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Dorothy Donegan is a homely, unhappy-looking young woman whose earnestly inspired pianism last week was drawing throngs to Elmer's Cocktail Lounge, an obscure nitery in the heart of Chicago's Loop.

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From the bandstand of the heavily upholstered Caf� Rouge in Manhattan's Statler Hotel, he beamed handsomely at the biggest crowds the nitery had ever seen, contentedly mooed the season's ballads in a domesticated baritone.

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Related Words

• bar 
• bistro 
• cabaret 
• disco 
• discotheque 
• restaurant 
• saloon 
• speakeasy 
• tavern 
• watering hole