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• n  a small (and usually shabby) cafe selling wine and beer and coffee

• It showed a disheveled, drunken Captain Flagg scuffling with Sergeant Quirt over an estaminet table.
• For Daumier, everything worth drawing happened right under his nose, in the railway carriage, the estaminet, the cellar, the butcher's shop or the lawcourts.
• Throughout this tale of youthful self-sacrifice are interpolated visitors to the estaminet: a pompous ferryboat commander who is touchy on the subject of his wife's fidelity; the .