wineshop

[ wahyn-shop ]

noun
  1. a shop where wine is sold.

Origin of wineshop

1
First recorded in 1840–50; wine + shop

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How to use wineshop in a sentence

  • A cheap restaurant, some wineshops, and a vile billiard saloon provided shelter for the rest of the day.

    His Unknown Wife | Louis Tracy
  • The eating-houses had closed and voices, gruff with drink, could be heard disputing in the wineshops.

    L'Assommoir | Emile Zola
  • In the wineshops a separate hearth is sometimes found, and occasionally a leaden vessel for heating water.

  • Then Gervaise, feeling quite dejected, talked of sending someone to all the wineshops in the neighborhood to find Coupeau.

    L'Assommoir | Emile Zola
  • At the wineshops the Spaniards tell stories—— But he wants to know why you bother about the sailors.

    Kit Musgrave's Luck | Harold Bindloss