| 单词 | milk bar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk bar milk bar n. a cafe or snack bar selling milk drinks and other refreshments; (later esp.) Australian a corner shop or local general store selling sweets, newspapers, convenience food, etc., as well as milk, milkshakes, and ice creams. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > milk-bar milk bar1918 1918 Hoard's Dairyman 30 Aug. 153/2 Wherever people gather..at fairs, conventions, and shows there should be found the milk bar or the milkmaid serving the people with the refreshing food beverage. 1935 Forres Gaz. 20 Nov. 1/2 The milk bar, or place where milk drinks are sold, is a popular institution all over Australia, and plans are on foot for installing..them in Britain. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top xxx. 254 A milk bar near the railway station. 1962 T. M. Hunt & A. C. Toal Princ. Profitable Retailing 29 Many hundreds of Australian retailers conduct what is called a ‘mixed’ business..centred around a milk bar and/or delicatessen and/or sub-newsagency. 1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 281 I would perhaps follow him at a distance and watch him rejoin the two sixty-inch giantesses at the entrance to the milk bar. 2014 Cairns (Queensland) Post (Nexis) 18 Aug. 10 It started me thinking about my own 1970s childhood... Buying dad's Marlboro cigarettes—he called them ‘smokes’—and mixed lollies at the local milk bar. < as lemmas |
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