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  • The building, which had been the scene of fierce fighting even before our battalion arrived on the scene of action, still bore the sign "Estaminet," and so we could safely conclude that it had been the village "pub," or wine lodge.

    A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey

  • Some of the fellows took me to an Estaminet for a French Beer which is very low in alcohol but as I didn't drink liquor, I didn't know the difference.

    Lynn Viehl's The Devil's Writing Dictionary Part 1 ewillett 2008

  • Outside an _Estaminet_ was a horse and cart partly across the road, and just sufficiently blocking it.

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • _Estaminet_ (I noticed they always chose their quarters well) to bring out the officer.

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • [Illustration: Comin 'on down to the Estaminet tonight, Arry?]

    Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

  • Much superfluous kit was left behind, to be sent for later on, and the weird bundles left at the Estaminet at Bac-St.

    The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

  • We soon arrived at St. Inglevert, which consisted of a little Church, an _Estaminet_, one or two cottages, the

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • I found them at the Estaminet de l'Epinette on the

    Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

  • After dinner we accompanied some of the younger officers to a mysterious place called "The Club" -- an Estaminet in the village, operated by a French woman and recently "out of bounds" for several days because of failure to observe the early closing law.

    On the Fringe of the Great Fight 1921

  • Estaminet and wait five or six deep for the billiard-table.

    Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

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