Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A restaurant serving alcoholic beverages, especially beer, as well as food.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In France, a brewery, or a beer-garden attached to a brewery; also, any beer-garden or beer-saloon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small, informal
restaurant that servesbeer andwine as well as simplefood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The word brasserie means brewery in French, and beer lovers will appreciate the dozen or so brews on tap as well as nearly 100 bottles from all over the world.
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In France, a brasserie is a café doubling as a restaurant with a relaxed setting, which serves single dishes and other meals.
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The brasserie was a big quiet place, frequented chiefly by regular customers eating the plat du jour or cold meat.
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The brasserie is a blaze of chrome and mirrors, where customers in curving banquettes eat shellfish on ice.
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The Hotel boasts of an award winning 2 rosette fine dining restaurant and brasserie, which is working towards the accolade of 3 to 4 rosettes and then onto their first Michelin star.
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By tradition, a brasserie is a modest restaurant, a place where you can enjoy a good, unpretentious meal at almost any time of day.
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The Brasserie Lipp is not a restaurant: it insists - correctly - on being called a brasserie, a place to drink beer, or wine, or coffee, and to eat the reknowned Alsatian cuisine.
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The word 'brasserie' is also French for brewery and, by extension, "the brewing business."
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Heard on NPR this morning -- a report of the manifs in Aulnay-sous-Bois by a reporter who couldn't even say "brasserie" right.
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a brasserie, which is good for quick, simple meals; and a conservatory, which serves up a marvellous cream tea.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
muamor commented on the word brasserie
Like two berries, this & brassiere.
March 2, 2008
Dan337 commented on the word brasserie
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