| 单词 | corner-grocery |
| 释义 | > as lemmascorner-grocery corner-grocery n. U.S. a grocery, or a bar-room, situated at a street corner. ΚΠ 1849 in Mrs. F. L. Adams Pioneer Hist. Ingham Co. (1923) 149 A little old ‘corner grocery’ building occupied the corner where Pratt & Millspaugh's block now stands. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Corner-grocery, a grocer's shop on the corner of two streets, a favorite location for such establishments in American towns. 1862 Congress. Globe 7 July 3159/1 Without subjecting themselves to the charge of disloyalty by every corner-grocery politician in the land. 1870 ‘F. Fern’ Ginger-snaps 106 Tea to the working-girl, taken in this way, is like the ‘corner-grocery-drink’ to the working-man. 1890 G. W. Perrie Buckskin Mose (new ed.) i. 11 Carrying out tea and sugar..with other such necessaries and luxuries, from a corner-grocery. 1932 Atlantic Monthly CL. 141 She telephones to the corner grocery. < as lemmas |
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