Meanings
plural spaghetteries
- A restaurant that sells spaghetti.
SERVICES: (1) Restaurants, spaghetteries
1996, Trade Marks Journal, page 45 more examples
In place of the rotisseries, spaghetteries, cafeterias, coffee potteries and what-nottaries that now cater to the inner man, the oyster house was the great middle-class refectory.
1925, Henry Collins Brown, Valentine’s Manual of Old New York, page 81We have met up with cats in Greek coffee houses, Negro cellar dives of the Hill, spaghetteries and the improvised cafes of Grant street’s “Little Hungary.”
1929 April 5, Charles F. Danver, “Pittsburghesque”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 2, number 212, page 10An east-end spaghettery is still patching the scars from a New Year’s Eve riot that lasted two hours.
1957 January 5, The Sunday Sun, volume LXXI, number 78, Vancouver, B.C., page 21The best place for you single gals to head is the popular Da Meo Patacca restaurant. Located in the Piazza Dei Mercanti, this is one of the swingingest spaghetteries in all of Rome.
1969 March 25, Krystal Pool, “Exploring historic Rome”, in The Windsor Star, volume 102, number 21, page 27Anyway, I had this hankering for some spaghetti the other night and since I’ve visited just about all of the spaghetteries in town, and out of town, I thought I’d have a go at the newest one.
1982 August 31, George N. Constable, “Joe’s ‘spa-gett’ house dream come true”, in News Journal, page 1-B
Origin
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