Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small café.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cheap coffee-house where smoking is allowed; a tap-room.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A café, or room in a café, in which smoking is allowed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
café orbar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small (and usually shabby) cafe selling wine and beer and coffee
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In front of the estaminet was our "listening post," where we kept watch and guard at night.
A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey
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In one corner of the estaminet was a group of bourgeois gentlemen talking business for a time, and then listening to a monologue from the woman behind the counter.
Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919
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The propriety of housing (p. 207) a Senior Chaplain in an estaminet might be questioned, but this particular one was called the estaminet of St. Joseph.
The Great War As I Saw It Frederick George Scott 1902
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The Company settled down in the chief "estaminet" of the place.
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A Staff Officer, rubbing sleep from his eyes, emerged from a little "estaminet" and gave the Colonel the necessary orders.
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However, later in the day, after dark, I went to a local 'estaminet' in a nearby wood, obviously without a hat.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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The size of the so-called Passage Feydeau (which opened in 1791 and was demolished in 1824) can be judged by the number of its tenants: several milliners and haberdashers, two book stalls, a florist, a tobacconist, a stamp dealer, a chestnut seller, and, along the entire length of the upper floor, an estaminet (a distinctly unfancy type of café that permitted smoking).1
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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The size of the so-called Passage Feydeau (which opened in 1791 and was demolished in 1824) can be judged by the number of its tenants: several milliners and haberdashers, two book stalls, a florist, a tobacconist, a stamp dealer, a chestnut seller, and, along the entire length of the upper floor, an estaminet (a distinctly unfancy type of café that permitted smoking).1
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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The size of the so-called Passage Feydeau (which opened in 1791 and was demolished in 1824) can be judged by the number of its tenants: several milliners and haberdashers, two book stalls, a florist, a tobacconist, a stamp dealer, a chestnut seller, and, along the entire length of the upper floor, an estaminet (a distinctly unfancy type of café that permitted smoking).1
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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We spent the rest of that Saturday afternoon over a bottle of absinthe in the little estaminet in the cobbled alley off the boulevard du Temple.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
bilby commented on the word estaminet
My house is a decayed house,
And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner,
Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp,
Blistered in Brussels, patched and peeled in London.
The goat coughs at night in the field overhead;
Rocks, moss, stonecrop, iron, merds.
- TS Eliot, 'Gerontion'.
July 22, 2009
vendingmachine commented on the word estaminet
n. a small (and usually shabby) café selling wine, beer, and coffee and where smoking is allowed.
"We spent the rest of that Saturday afternoon over a bottle of absinthe in the little estaminet in the cobbled alley off the boulevard du Temple."
-Oscar Wilde
July 26, 2015