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Estaminet

noun
1.
A small (and usually shabby) cafe selling wine and beer and coffee.





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"Estaminet" Quotes from Famous Books



... under very different circumstances, in command of the Battalion, knowledge of the ground obtained eighteen months before, even to the position of garden gates and the width of ditches, proved most useful. I am afraid the Battalion's old billets were soon knocked down, the favourite estaminet in D Company area being among the first ...
— The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry • G. K. Rose
... Division had left. We took the great highroad to Calais, and, carefully passing the General, who was clattering along with his staff and an escort of Hussars, we pulled up to light our lamps at a little estaminet with glowing red blinds just like the blinds of certain hospitable taverns in the city of Oxford. The coincidence was so remarkable that we ...
— Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson


Words linked to "Estaminet" :   cafe, coffee shop, coffee bar, coffeehouse


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