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Definition of Grogshops
1. grogshop [n] - See also: grogshop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grogshops
Literary usage of Grogshops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana by Louisiana Supreme Court (1859)
"empowers the authorities of the town to lay and collect tuxes upon all grogshops
within the limits of the corporation ; that tho parish is not authorized to ..."
2. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1898)
"The expenses incurred in the cafés and grogshops constitute the main part, both
of the increase noted and of the actual total of this category of expenses. ..."
3. Centennial Temperance Volume: A Memorial of the International Temperance (1877)
"We have been endeavoring to do our share by putting away the cause of this mischief.
A gentleman said to me, "You can never stop the grogshops ; there are ..."
4. The Revised Statutes of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by Rhode Island (1857)
"All buildings, places or tenements used as houses of ill fame, resorted to for
prostitution, lewdness, or for illegal gaming, and all grogshops, ..."
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