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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Examples
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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.
unknown title 2009
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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.
Day 93: Brasserie Bonanza Vanessa 2007
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The brasserie was a big quiet place, frequented chiefly by regular customers eating the plat du jour or cold meat.
Maigret's Dead Man Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1964
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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.
Just Jared 2008
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The word 'brasserie' is also French for brewery and, by extension, "the brewing business."
Day 93: Brasserie Bonanza Vanessa 2007
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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.
Expat Foul! 2005
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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 2010
muamor commented on the word brasserie
Like two berries, this & brassiere.
March 2, 2008
Dan337 commented on the word brasserie
January 1, 2011