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guinguette en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɡæŋˈɡɛt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French guinguette.

Meanings

1. (historical) A sort of outdoor tavern that once existed in the suburbs of Paris
   • Our walks, tete-a-tete, on the outside of the city, where I magnificently spent eight or ten sous in each guinguette. 1903, Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book VIII.:
   • So again, a Tyrolese evening dance, though the costume, and the step, and the music may be different, is the same in feeling as that of the Parisian guinguette; but follow the Tyrolese into their temples, and their deep devotion and beautiful though superstitious reverence will be found very different from any feeling exhibited during a mass in Notre-Dame. 1837, John Ruskin, The Poetry of Architecture:

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