Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shop or house where gin is retailed; a dram-shop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic, colloquial A place where
gin is sold; a modern day example would be atavern orbarroom .
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Examples
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It is only since the introduction of this trade that the sole recreation of the laborer is to be found in the pot-house or ginshop, and it is only since the introduction of this baneful trade that poverty, crime, and misery have made rapid and fearful strides throughout the community.
Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles John Spargo 1921
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Mrs. Fry withdrew, and waiting for nightfall followed the woman: down a winding alley, past rows of rotting tenements, into a cellar below a ginshop.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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Mrs. Fry withdrew, and waiting for nightfall followed the woman: down a winding alley, past rows of rotting tenements, into a cellar below a ginshop.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Elbert Hubbard 1885
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I am like the drunkard who admires a temperate life, yet can't pass a ginshop.
In the Midst of Alarms Robert Barr 1881
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Kapiton stayed till late at night at the ginshop with a friend of his, a man of gloomy appearance, to whom he related in detail how he used to live in Petersburg with a gentleman, who would have been all right, except he was a bit too strict, and he had
The Torrents of Spring Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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observed Bazarov, pointing to a ginshop which they were passing at that instant.
Chapter XIII 1917
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Kapiton stayed till late at night at the ginshop with a friend of his, a man of gloomy appearance, to whom he related in detail how he used to live in Petersburg with a gentleman, who would have been all right, except he was a bit too strict, and he had a slight weakness besides, he was too fond of drink; and, as to the fair sex, he didn’t stick at anything.
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Hi might tell ye”; and he jerked his thumb over his shoulder toward a ginshop near by.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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Hi might tell ye "; and he jerked his thumb over his shoulder toward a ginshop near by.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Elbert Hubbard 1885
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