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beanery en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree English bean Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English beanery From bean + -ery.

Meanings

1. (informal) An inexpensive restaurant or cafe; a bistro.
   • I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the county roads Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the same place they did thirty years ago. Where-you-from-buddy restaurants. 1982, William Least Heat-Moon [pseudonym; William Trogdon], Blue Highways, →ISBN, page 16:
   • Do not make the excuse that you cannot get the right foods at the beaneries. The beaneries are going to serve just what the customers demand and when enough of you fellows get to demanding vitalized foods you are going to get them. 1924 July, Locomotive Engineers Journal, volume 58, page 541:

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