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
The setting is Chicago in Bill Cracker's gin mill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once more in his career he was trying to get someone to stop using the name Stork Club on a gin mill other than his own.
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 Robert Cortes Holliday
