Crossword-Solution: ESTAMINETS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

But, light as it was, it had represented much abstinence from estaminets and tobacco-shops, on the part of its donors.

The young men of the schools and the estaminets (celebrated places of public education) allured by the noble words of Prince Napoleon, “Liberty, equality, war all over the world!” flocked to his standard in considerable numbers: while the noblesse naturally hastened to offer their allegiance to the legitimate descendant of Saint Louis.

There is the English Raff Snob, that frequents ESTAMINETS and CABARETS; who is heard yelling, 'We won't go home till morning!' and startling the midnight echoes of quiet Continental towns with shrieks of English slang.

There were the five old windmills of Cassel that wave their arms up the hill road, and the estaminets by which one found one's way down country lanes--“The Veritable Cuckoo” and “The Lost Corner” and “The Flower of the Fields”--and the first smashed roofs and broken barns which led to the area of constant shell-fire.

Some of them knew, and crossed themselves by wayside shrines for the sake of their sons' souls, or in their estaminets cursed the Germans with the same old curses for having brought all this woe into the world.