brasserie

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At this brasserie, the chicken arrived delicately carved into manageable pieces and had a delicious buttery, herby flavour.

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  1. noun A restaurant serving alcoholic beverages, especially beer, as well as food.

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  • It was a brasserie, adjacent to a flight of stone steps. —  Maigret and the Apparition - Episode 90 - Georges Simenon
  • The brasserie was a big quiet place, frequented chiefly by regular customers eating the plat du jour or cold meat. —  Maigret’s Dead Man - Georges Simenon - 56: 1948
  • In the brasserie, where they stood at the bar, there were several other inspectors. —  Maigret's Revolver - Georges Simenon - 68
  • The brasserie, too, smelled of winter, with damp coats and hats hanging from all the hooks and dense clouds of steam rising from the dark windows. —  Maigret and the Man on the Bench—69—Georges Simenon
  • “Good night I hope it will be!” He had no difficulty in finding the brasserie, which was full of regulars, playing cards. —  Maigret's Boyhood Friend - Georges Simenon - 97
 

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  1. French, from brasser, to malt, brew, from Old French bracier, from Vulgar Latin *braciāre, from Latin brace, malt, of Celtic origin.

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  1. F. (Middle Latin brasseria), from brasser, brew, mash, stir up, from Old French bracer, from Middle Latin braciare (brasiare, braxare, brassare), brew, from bracium (brasium, brasum), brace (later Old French braz, bres), malt, L. (Gallic) brace (variant brance), a kind of corn; cf. brank.
 

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/ˈbræsəri/
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