Barre-Saint-Brice, is another estaminet in a house of very ancient construction.
There is invariably a public cafe or estaminet attached to the places where archery contests au berceau are conducted, while such places are always found close by the spot where a Tir a l'oiseau takes place.
A bit further on we entered a quaint little estaminet bearing the inviting name of In der Groote Pinte which we freely translated as "the big pint.
Facing the Grande Place is the ancient Hotel de Ville, which, in addition to being the most notable monument of the dead town, is also an estaminet where the living can get a little refreshment.
Actually, more than once, we did see part of the crew returning from an estaminet hard by whither they had gone to have a friendly glass.
You give it up as a bad job and generally saunter over to the nearestestaminet to drown your moody forebodings in a glass of sickening French beer, or to try your luck at the always present game of "House.
As soon as the estaminet is sufficiently crowded the proprietors of the "House Game" get busy and as they term it "form a school.
After drinking our beer we left the estaminet and hailed an empty ambulance.
We immediately reported to the nearest French estaminet and had several glasses of muddy water, which they called beer.
Generally used in a French estaminet when Tommy only has a couple of minutes in which to drink his beer.
We found no Regiment there, so the Officer took us all into an estaminet (beer-shop), and ordered us coffee and food.
Just behind and in rear was an estaminet run by two French girls.
The Estaminet du Divan, however, pretended to a much more literary atmosphere than the magnificent establishment on the boulevard itself.
Major Fraser, though he never dined there, spent an hour or two daily in the Estaminet du Divan to read the papers.
She chose to work at night that she might keep the estaminet open by day for the men too old to fight and for the rapidly increasing number of "réformés": those who had lost a leg or arm or were otherwise incapacited for service.
Headquarters had been compelled to shift, hastily enough, from the Estaminet de La Bombe on the La Bassée-Estaires road.
VIII--THE GIRL WHO WAS SHOT At the Estaminet de l'Epinette I heard a certain story, and hearing it set about to make a fool of myself.
The open avowal of this feeling came one night in the largest and most popular estaminet in the village to which the Battalion had been withdrawn “on rest.
The man had been drinking last night at the estaminet up there.
In one corner of the estaminet was a group of bourgeois gentlemen talking business for a time, and then listening to a monologue from the woman behind the counter.
Other soldiers and women in the estaminet gathered round staring at the yellow tress, laughing, making ribald conjectures as to the character of the woman from whose head it had come.
They came to Amiens, and hired theestaminet and set up business.
Then one day the young husband went away with the little maid and all the money, leaving his wife in the estaminet with a big debt to pay and a broken heart.
So spoke an officer of the Chasseurs Alpins, and a friend in the infantry of the line, over a cup of coffee in an estaminet crammed with other French soldiers who were on their way to the Champagne front.
After this they took a stroll up and down the street, and were bored, and went into the estaminet again, and ordered five more glasses of porto.
VIII In the Street of the Three Pebbles there was a small estaminet into which I went one morning for a cup of coffee, while I read an Amiens news-sheet made up mostly of extracts translated from the leading articles of English papers.
Of course he spent most of the time in anestaminet himself, eating eggs and chips and flirting with the girl .
But the St. Martin was the biggest estaminet in the village and provided the best wines and coffees, so they stood in the doorway, undecided what to do.
However much transport the Germans abandoned, however severe the losses they sustained, they always found time to break open every estaminet they passed, and drain it dry.
An estaminet yielded a couple of bottles of Médoc, and a pâtisserie, most unexpectedly, some bread.
They carried him on to the Clearing Hospital in a motor Ambulance, and deposited him in the hall of a little estaminet that had been turned into an Officer's Hospital.
An estaminet with such a title, and carried on under such high patronage, was one in which I could make myself at home.
A table was brought out from an estaminet nearby and placed in front of the steps.
At one point, however, we were disturbed by the arrival of three men who had been dining in an estaminet in the village, and coming unexpectedly upon a church service were a little too hearty in their religious fervour.
We had many pleasant gatherings there in an estaminet which became a meeting place for officers.
Senior Chaplain in an estaminet might be questioned, but this particular one was called the estaminet of St. Joseph.
But the new-found estaminet did not lay itself out to supply anything but thin beer and short drinks.
Three or four shabby cottages and a whitewashed estaminet stand by the roadside on top of the hill, overlooking the valley of the Sambre.
If the woman of the estaminet was right, even now those woods might conceal a German scout.
Captain Lumsden and I went off to search for an estaminet to try to get something to eat, and we had not far to go.
Behind the closed shutters of the white house the tearful woman of the estaminet listened in terror to the sound of horses' hoofs, and crouched in the silence that followed.
The estaminet was full of people, brutish-looking peasants swilling neat spirits, cattle drovers and the like.
I had noticed a little estaminet place on the road, about a hundred yards before we reached the Schloss.
The accommodation was rough, and the little estaminet was crowded with officers, who were only too thankful to sleep on any floor where there was a chance of putting down a valise.
A stretcher was being borne into the doorway of an estaminet which had escaped destruction by shells, and above the door was chalked some lettering which indicated that it was a first clearing station for the wounded.
I am writing this in a small estaminet which is much overcrowded, and in the conversation can only be described as a din.
On one corner stood an estaminet and trenches ran all round.
Immediately on their right, in front of them, was the ruin of an old estaminet called Au Bon Gite, made into a fortified emplacement and defended by machine-guns.
We were having an omelette of huit-oeufs, and une bouteille de vin rouge in a little estaminet way back, I remember; and I asked him what he thought.
I'd stopped there three years ago at a small estaminet near the station kept by the widow Demassiet.
We rode north to the Estaminet de l'Epinette, passing a road which forking to the right led to a German barricade.
At the Estaminetde l'Epinette I heard a certain story, and hearing it set about to make a fool of myself.
The estaminet still lived, but farther down the road the old house which had sheltered a field ambulance was a pile of rubbish.
Alice in an estaminet says she learned French from the French prisoners kept there--her bar used to be crowded with them.
An estaminet has jumped up like a weed beside the ruins but it has little trade.
Illustration: Comin' on down to the Estaminet tonight, Arry?
So we continued on our own for another mile and a half, past the estaminet at Romerin, out on towards Neuve Eglise to our Transport Farm.
I took his advice, and having left all my tackle by his office, went into the nearest estaminet to get some breakfast.
L'As de Pique was the especial estaminet of the chasses-marais.
Much superfluous kit was left behind, to be sent for later on, and the weird bundles left at the Estaminet at Bac-St. Maur will not readily be forgotten.
And throughout the whole grim struggle which ensued, the Estaminet aux Bons Fermiers, tenanted by some of our oldest friends, proved itself the head and corner of the successful defence.
That very evening he set forth the coming plan of campaign, as elucidated to him by his master, to a mixed assemblage at the Estaminet au Clef des Champs.
We were billeted at an estaminet that had copped it pretty thick.
Ask him," prompted Fortescue, "when he's going to have another bath at the Estaminet Moulin Gris.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estaminet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
