night-cellar
English
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Noun
[edit]night-cellar (plural night-cellars)
- (historical) A cellar open to the public at night for the purchase of food, drink, and entertainment, primarily in London, England in the 18th century.
- 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
- The palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth and death, of health and sickness, the rigid face of the corpse and the calm sleep of the child: midnight was upon them all.