gin mill

Example Sentences

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It took meeting Norma, a young beauty in a gin mill in the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights, to steer him toward acting.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

Classing up a gin mill with Bentwood chairs and imitation Tiffany lamps—set dressing the part of a homey establishment, as it were—Stillman built the first of the great singles bars.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2013

John McNulty did not create his own most famous character�Mat, the proprietor of a gin mill known as "Mat's."

From Time Magazine Archive

The setting is Chicago in Bill Cracker's gin mill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Saloon bar, for instance, is intended to designate a rather aristocratic place, above the public bar; while the lowest "gin mill" in the United States would be called a "saloon."

From Walking-Stick Papers by Holliday, Robert Cortes