Crossword-Solution: POPIN 5 letters, 56 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

There is little doubt in my mind that when the Roman Emperor first arrived he found a colony of spinsters and retired army officers (from recently conquered Britain) living around this spring in _popinæ_ (which are supposed to have corresponded to our modern boarding-house), wearing waterproof togas and common-sense cothurni, with double cork soles.

These establishments afford lodging as well as food; whereas +tabernæ+, +popinæ+, +ganea+, only food, like restaurateurs; +tabernæ+ (from trabes?), for the common people, as eating-houses; +popinæ+ (from popa, πέψαι), for gentlefolks and gourmands, like ordinaries; +ganea+ (from ἀγανός?), for voluptuaries.

Merle, and he blossomed forth next Sunday in russet and plum-colour, Bassett called him a popin-jay; and the keeper killed Minnie’s old friendship at a breath by telling her in round terms, with the forceful periods of that time, that her cousin was either less than he proclaimed himself, or more.