Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where grog or other spirituous liquor is sold; a dram-shop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.
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- noun A
shop orroom where strongliquors are sold and drunk.
Etymologies
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Examples
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By similar reasoning a superannuated dairymaid with a grogshop is a very different person to the "pretty girl milking her cow" -- sovereign lady of her presence, but of no groggery beside.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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Frances Willard herself had adopted the imagery, asserting that the grogshop is the Negro’s center of power.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Frances Willard herself had adopted the imagery, asserting that the grogshop is the Negro’s center of power.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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In the _New York Voice_ of October 23, 1890, after a tour in the South, where she was told all these things by the "best white people," she said: "The grogshop is the Negro's center of power.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1896
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Looking in the direction of Murtagh's nod, I saw Fergus, sitting on a piling near the entrance to one grogshop, plainly doing sentry duty.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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CHAPTER FIVE The Cafe of the Infidels was like every grogshop Casca had ever been in.
The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980
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Consequently the woman got married and died, and her husband having proved objectionable was evicted and the grogshop extinguished.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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I go for a drive with one of those proscribed by the grogshop-keepers of Castleisland the muzzle of a double-barrelled carbine peeps ominously from the "well" of the car.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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I refer to the _status_ of the poorest classes in society; to the miserable method of their lives, always wretched, ever burdensome, with but one source of temporary relief within their means, the grogshop, which deepens their misery; to their hopeless degradation and perpetual ignorance, under present social arrangements, whether labor be a little higher for a time or not.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Byron wrote that "nought so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion;" but this dictum is hardly confirmed in the case of Mr. Bence Jones's assailants, who number among them a minister of religion, as well as the irrepressible grogshop-keeper.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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