bistrot

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A form of bistro — A small casual restaurant or pub, typically serving French-style cuisine.

UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

nounbistrot (plural bistrots)

plural bistrots

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bistro.

    Further along, at a bistrot run by Maltese, they would eat the Mediterranean sausage soubressade, accompanied by heavy wine.

    1979, Herbert R[oger] Lottman, “Awakening”, in Albert Camus: A Biography, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 51
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    In that Bible of French gastronomes, the Michelin guide, the top three-star rating would not conceivably be given to any but the great elegant practitioners of the haute cuisine—not to a restaurant serving the cuisine bourgeoise, not to a bistrot, not to a small place with one person in the kitchen, even if that one person is a genius.

    1969, Waverley Root, “What This Guide Tells You”, in Paris Dining Guide, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →LCCN, page 20

    He lunched alone in a bistrot, reading the Paris Herald-Trib and noting with perverse pleasure that Bill Bradley had scored only eight points in the Knicks’ first playoff game.

    1977, James Brady, “Max”, in Paris One: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 107

    The composer was duly taken out to a bistrot for a generous beverage or two, and on his return listened to the piece conducted by Pedro de Freitas Branco at a considerably faster tempo.

    2002, Roger Nichols, “Exotic and Nostalgic Dreamworks”, in Ravel: Shéhérazade / Le Tombeau de Couperin / Debussy: Ballades de Villon, New York, N.Y.: Universal Classics Group, B0002121-02, page 4, column 1

Origin

  1. Frenchbistrot
  2. Frenchbistrot
  3. Englishbistrot

Borrowed from French bistrot.

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