ˈgin-ˌpalace
[f. gin n.2]
A gaudily decorated public house. (An opprobrious term.)
| 1834 Oxf. Univ. Mag. I. 327 The gin palaces, (as they have been not inaptly called). 1835 Marryat Olla Podr. xxi, Gin palaces, like hell, ever open. 1874 Helps Soc. Press. iii. 56 It would probably counteract the attractions even of the gin-palace. |