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chowmeinery en · NOUN

Etymology

From chow mein + -ery.

Meanings

1. (US, dated, rare) A Chinese restaurant.
   • The lubratorium (a place for greasing motorcars) is marching eastward from the Pacific Coast, and with it comes the chowmeinery and the radioteria. 1935, The New Yorker (volume 11, part 2, page 33)
   • A flock of movie theaters, Chink chowmeineries, open-front orange juice joints, second-rate short order restaurants and cafeterias, […] 1931, William R. Lipman, The Night is Long, page 97:
   • Chowmeineries flop out of Grant Street's hip pocket 2008, Ralph O. Cunningham, Joe Ruggier, Schwanengesang: Poems, page 21:

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