buvette

Example Sentences

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The town of Aire-sur-l’Adour has an even bigger covered market, held on Saturday mornings, with a busy buvette, where many a marketgoer can be seen enjoying an early-morning aperitif.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2017

Twenty years later he turns up under the most unfavorable circumstances in the buvette which she owns at Le Havre.

From Time Magazine Archive

As they left the buvette they heard again the crunching crackling noise as the man bit another piece off the bottle.

From Three Soldiers by Dos Passos, John

On the narrow pavement a blind man pottered along led by a red-eyed poodle: a little farther on a dishevelled woman sat grinding coffee on the threshold of a buvette.

From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Wharton, Edith

Achille's shop wasn't a café or an estaminet or a buvette or anny o' thim places.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 by Various