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Definition of Poolrooms
1. poolroom [n] - See also: poolroom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poolrooms
Literary usage of Poolrooms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Play Movement and Its Significance by Henry Stoddard Curtis (1917)
"DANCE HALLS, poolrooms, AND SALOONS These have no direct relationship to the
playground, but the playground will be a new and effective rival of all of ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1910)
"poolrooms—Whether Operation is Wrongful.—The operation of a poolroom or a ...
poolrooms—Validity of Ordinance Prohibiting.—A general ordinance cannot be ..."
3. Minutes and Testimony of the Joint Legislative Committee Appointed to by New York (State), Legislature (1916)
"you do tap wires for poolrooms, have you in eighteen months tapped more than a
dozen wires for suspected poolrooms ? A. I don't know. ..."
4. Safeguards for City Youth at Work and at Play by Louise de Koven Bowen (1914)
"Better cooperation with the ownership involved, was secured by the Association
in our attempt to regulate the attendance of minors at the poolrooms. ..."
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