/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Shebeen
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A small Irish store for the sale of whisky and something else, as bacon, eggs, general provisions, and groceries.
“Drinking your health wid Shamus
OʹShea at Katty’s shebeen.”
Tennyson: To-morrow, stanza 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.