How To Use Estaminet In A Sentence
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Our period of rest was divided between Burbure and Busnes, and in both places the mesdemoiselles and the estaminets were a source of real delight to the men of the 7th.
The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 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
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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
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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
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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
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The Company settled down in the chief "estaminet" of the place.
"Contemptible", by "Casualty"
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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
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But the St. Martin was the biggest estaminet in the village and provided the best wines and coffees, so they stood in the doorway, undecided what to do.
Combed Out
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But the St. Martin was the biggest estaminet in the village and provided the best wines and coffees, so they stood in the doorway, undecided what to do.
Combed Out
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The mayor, in undress, that is to say in garments of every day, having surveyed these preparations, returned to his _estaminet_, the Plat d'Or, and there folded his newspapers as usual for the day's distribution.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
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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
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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
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A Staff Officer, rubbing sleep from his eyes, emerged from a little "estaminet" and gave the Colonel the necessary orders.
"Contemptible", by "Casualty"
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When shopping is done, repair to an estaminet for sustenance such as waterzooi fish stew or the four-meat potjevleesch.
Times, Sunday Times
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`You see, during the war I was managing an estaminet in Épernay near to Verdun, sonny.
FAIRYLAND
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‘My dream is to buy a domaine in France,’ he says, sipping claret at his favourite table in London's L' Estaminet restaurant. ‘There are a few places near my home, old bastides and châteaux, that would be ideal.’
