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gin palaces

n. (gin palace English)

Usage examples of "gin palaces".

The theatres and music halls were disgorging their second-house audiences, the gin palaces their inebriates, into the blurred glow from gaslights and the naked flicker of naphtha fog-flares.

Over the next thirty minutes, James Maybrick and his mentor shadowed her across most of the East End, from Whitechapel down through Wapping, east into Poplar, a wretched stretch of dockside gambling dens and gin palaces where—.

The shops that gazed like the gloomy eyesockets of skulls into the narrow lanes seemed to be of only three typessecondhand clothes, pawnshops, or gin palaces from whose doors, even at this hour of the afternoon, trickled snatches of drunken singing.

The crowds around the theatres and gin palaces there were scarcely less thick than those around the station, and far noisier.

Over the next thirty minutes, James Maybrick and his mentor shadowed her across most of the East End, from Whitechapel down through Wapping, east into Poplar, a wretched stretch of dockside gambling dens and gin palaces where—.

They headed down toward Flower and Dean Street, where women strolled the streets mostly alone, a few walking in pairs or small clusters, their eyes bright with fear and misery, soliciting rough-dressed men who emerged from pubs and gin palaces and gambling hells.

People who ran their mini-empires of financial trusts and venture projects from floating gin palaces.

The Coffee Stalls, the Gin Palaces, the Prisons and all the other monu­.

The Coffee Stalls, the Gin Palaces, the Prisons and all the other monuments.