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coffee palacenoun Australian historicalA hotel which does not serve alcoholic drinks: imminent bankruptcy forced the coffee palaces to convert into licensed hotels...- The wooden shop adjacent was once a Coffee Palace, one of a chain of temperance hotels throughout Victoria.
- I felt as if I had come into a coffee palace and I was the coffee king.
- At this point the hotel was known as the Grand Coffee Palace and for a brief period, under the influence of the Temperance Movement, banned liquor from its premises.
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