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

Somewhere between Los Angeles and Georgia, a freelance writer was motorcycling to an assignment, unaware that his editors had been fired and were commiserating in a Manhattan gin mill.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

They had a gin mill, and a grist mill, and a sawmill.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration