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Definition of Ginshop
1. n. A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage.
Definition of Ginshop
1. Noun. (archaic colloquial) A place where gin is sold; a modern day example would be a tavern or barroom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ginshop
1. a shop that sells gin [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ginshop
Literary usage of Ginshop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Argument for the Legislative Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic by Frederic Richard Lees (1857)
"This ginshop that you love, because it increases your revenue, ... No one sits
in a ginshop. The customer comes in, 'pays for his glass of poison,' drinks ..."
2. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1881)
"I said, " You are to preach next Sunday in Angel Meadow, in going home look in
at the ginshop at the corner of Street, and tell us what you see. ..."
3. Aristotelianism: The Ethics of Aristotle by Isaac Gregory Smith, William Grundy (1889)
"A man drawn to a ginshop or a gaming-table by his craving for drink or for
gambling, drawn to his home by the thought of wife and children, is free, ..."
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