estaminet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French estaminet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈstæmɪneɪ/, /ɛstæmɪˈneɪ/

Noun

estaminet (plural estaminets)

1. A small café or bar.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 525:

     Kit […] went in a little estaminet, and sat over in a corner with a twelve-centime glass of beer, reviewing the situation.

2. (archaic) A restaurant where smoking is allowed.

Anagrams

• tantièmes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French estaminet.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

estaminet n (plural estaminets, diminutive estaminetje n)

1. small café or inn

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Walloon estaminé (“a small café”), from stamon (“a post to which cows are tied next to a manger”). Compare Walloon staminée (“manger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ta.mi.nɛ/

• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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Noun

estaminet m (plural estaminets)

1. (obsolete) restaurant room where smoking is allowed
2. (by extension) small café, estaminet

   Synonyms: café, café-bar

   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Elle s'engouffrait dans les ruelles sombres, et elle arrivait tout en sueur vers le bas de la rue Nationale, près de la fontaine qui est là. C'est le quartier du théâtre, des estaminets et des filles.

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   • 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes amis [My Friends]‎^[2], Paris: Émile-Paul Frères:

     Je prends mon café, à côté de chez moi, dans un estaminet. Le zinc du comptoir est ondulé, au bord.

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Descendants

• → Dutch: estaminet
• → English: estaminet
• → Luxembourgish: Stamminee

Further reading

• “estaminet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012