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ham and beef shop

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ham and beef shop (plural ham and beef shops)

  1. (dated) A delicatessen.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 14:
      The night air was passably cool and he strolled through the town at a measured pace, killing time till bedtime. The garage was lighted up, the greengrocer's, the ham and beef shop.
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