luncheonette
English
Noun
luncheonette (plural luncheonettes)
- A small diner or restaurant that serves lunch.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:restaurant
- Coordinate term: bruncheonette
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 8, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 3:
- He talked up an acquaintance with a waitress in a luncheonette, made a date to take her driving in his Cadillac that afternoon, and came back to wake me with the news.
Descendants
- → Portuguese: lanchonete
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