| 单词 | genever shop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgenever shop General attributive, esp. genever shop. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1689Geneva shop [see main sense]. 1718 [Read's] Weekly Jrnl. 4 Jan. Last Thursday morning a Woman..coming out of a Jenava Shop, in Red Cross Street, fell down. 1740 C. Davies Life & Adventures ii. 25 She had eleven Bladders,..ten of them we filled with Geneva, and the Eleventh with Nastiness... Three of the Geneva Bladders were tyed round my Waite [sic]. 1761 I. Pottinger Methodist i. ii. 7 Bring the Geneva Bottle—Perhaps Sir, you would rather drink a glass of Brandy and Bitters. 1861 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 510/2 The geneva bottle and the cigar-box are always at hand. 1946 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 5 170 Geneva shops multiplied in the slum sections. 2002 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 26 Apr. (Report on Business Mag.) 105 The owner also runs a ‘genever restaurant’ upstairs and a genever shop across the street. Legally sold in bars only since 1985, the spirit is enjoying a renaissance. < as lemmas |
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