chowmeinery

plural chowmeineries

1. USdatedrareA Chinese restaurant.

   Chowmeineries flop out of Grant Street's hip pocket

   2008, Ralph O. Cunningham, Joe Ruggier, Schwanengesang: Poems, page 21

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   A flock of movie theaters, Chink chowmeineries, open-front orange juice joints, second-rate short order restaurants and cafeterias, […]

   1931, William R. Lipman, The Night is Long, page 97

   The lubratorium (a place for greasing motorcars) is marching eastward from the Pacific Coast, and with it comes the chowmeinery and the radioteria.

   1935, The New Yorker (volume 11, part 2, page 33)