Definition of "ginshop" [gin•shop]

• A place where gin is sold; a modern day example would be a tavern or barroom. (noun)

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• "It is only since the introduction of this trade that the sole recreation of the laborer is to be found in the pot-house or ginshop, and it is only since the introduction of this baneful trade that poverty, crime, and misery have made rapid and fearful strides throughout the community."
• "Mrs. Fry withdrew, and waiting for nightfall followed the woman: down a winding alley, past rows of rotting tenements, into a cellar below a ginshop."
• "I am like the drunkard who admires a temperate life, yet can't pass a ginshop."