| 单词 | shebeen-house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshebeen-house C1. General attributive, as shebeen-house, shebeen-shop; also shebeen-keeper. Π 1798 J. Holt Mem. (1838) I. 5 I struck off the road to a shebeen house or cabin in which whiskey is sold without a license. 1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 153 His honour..sent for more spirits from a shebean-house [note] Shebean-house—a hedge alehouse. Shebean properly means weak small bear, taplash. c1815 Song, ‘Oh, St. Patrick was a Gentleman’ v His mother kept a shebeen shop In the town of Enniskillen. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. iv. 144 Every mile or two has some establishment of the kind, ranging between the hotel and the shebeen house. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 428 In the shadow a shebeenkeeper haggles with the navvy and the two redcoats. < as lemmas |
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