guinguette
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French guinguette.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
guinguette (plural guinguettes)
- (historical) A sort of outdoor tavern that once existed in the suburbs of Paris
- 1903, Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book VIII.[1]:
- Our walks, tete-a-tete, on the outside of the city, where I magnificently spent eight or ten sous in each guinguette.
- 1837, John Ruskin, The Poetry of Architecture[2]:
- So again, a Tyrolese evening dance, though the costume, and the step, and the music may be different, is the same in feeling as that of the Parisian guinguette; but follow the Tyrolese into their temples, and their deep devotion and beautiful though superstitious reverence will be found very different from any feeling exhibited during a mass in Notre-Dame.
French edit
Etymology edit
From guinguet, a type of wine typically served in these places.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
guinguette f (plural guinguettes)
- (historical) guinguette (sort of outdoor tavern that once existed in the suburbs of Paris)
- 1936, “C'est la guinguette”, in La rue de notre amour, performed by Damia:
- Mais c’est surtout la guinguette / La guinguette au bord de l’eau / Qui rapporte de nos fêtes / Les souvenirs les plus beaux
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Further reading edit
- “guinguette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.