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ˈnight-cellar
[f. night n. + cellar n.]
A cellar serving as a tavern or place of resort during the night for persons of the lowest class.
a1743Savage Wks. 1775 II. 271, I generally..spend the evening with him at a night cellar in the Strand. 1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. VIII. 188 By digging a night-cellar for such thieves, murderers, and house-breakers as ever infested the world. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xvi, Night-cellars..for the reception and entertainment of the most abandoned of both sexes. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. v. (1858) 243 How the thief divides has booty and drinks his punch at the night-cellar. |