Remarkable to relate, the number of men who fell out was practically nil; there were no estaminets here, and to fall out would mean a lonely night in the desolate wilds of northern Greece; and this was an unpleasant prospect.
For the battalion as a whole there was little recreation, except that afforded by the estaminets and an occasional concert.
The estaminets make enormous profits from the sale of very weak beer.
The “learning” began that night after the estaminets closed, and there was a liberal allowance of black eyes and swollen features on parade next morning.
At the different French estaminets in the village, and at the canteens, Tommy buys fresh eggs, milk, bread, and pastry.
The French estaminets in the villages are open from eleven in the morning until one in the afternoon in accordance with army orders.
Some of them knew, and crossed themselves by wayside shrines for the sake of their sons' souls, or in their estaminets cursed the Germans with the same old curses for having brought all this woe into the world.
The men soon learnt that the estaminets were the equivalent in France of the public houses at home, and thither they repaired in the evening to spend their time.
On the 13th March the non-commissioned officers celebrated the anniversary of the Battalion's first arrival in France by arranging a kind of concert in one of the estaminets in Estaires.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estaminets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
