saloonistn.
/səˈluːnɪst/ U.S.
(a) A saloon-keeper. (b) One who upholds the system of drinking saloons.
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1870 Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City, Nevada) 3 Mar. 3/2 (heading) New saloonists.
1882 Chicago Advance 3 Aug. 499 Just think of a saloonist coming into court expecting to justify..his ‘business’ by exhibiting his ‘license’ as a contract by the people to let him sell liquor.
1886 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 16 (Cent. Dict.) Any persistent effort to enforce the Sunday laws against the saloon is met by the saloonist with the counter~effort to enforce the laws against legitimate business.
1946 Chicago Daily News 8 Nov. 18/2 Saloonists voted out of business in the Woodlawn local option election talk of going to court to upset the vote.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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