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gin palace

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gin palace (dʒɪn)

—n
	(formerly) a gaudy drinking house

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gin mill definition

and gin dive; gin palace

n.
a saloon; a low liquor establishment. (Older.) : Fred hit every gin mill on the way home. , The joint looks like a gin dive. I'm not going in there!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although a poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers."

-William Booth

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