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Definition of Ginshops
1. ginshop [n] - See also: ginshop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ginshops
Literary usage of Ginshops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Times and Gazette (1867)
"To this end we highly commend the efforts now making to abridge the hours during
which ginshops shall be open, especially on Sundays, ..."
2. A New and Popular Pictorial Description of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales by Robert Sears (1847)
"The ginshops get too large a share, in some cases, of the week's wages. Before the "
west end" had sprung into existence as an actual second London, ..."
3. Ten years in the slums by Alfred Alsop (1879)
"Such is Deansgate life; and can we wonder, when we take into consideration the
numerous ginshops and public-houses, pawnshops, and brothels ? ..."
4. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"But there were other scenes in these and other countries : ginshops and haunts
of vice where the hand of authority was seen and felt. ..."
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