Guinguette

Quick meaning: Guinguette is a noun meaning (historical) A sort of outdoor tavern that once existed in the suburbs of Paris.

Meaning

(historical) A sort of outdoor tavern that once existed in the suburbs of Paris.

Example Sentences

Our walks, tete-a-tete, on the outside of the city, where I magnificently spent eight or ten sous in each guinguette.

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.

Word Forms

• guinguettes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include buvette, faubourg, bergerette, bidonville, dancing, quartier.

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