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ptomaine palace
noun
a restaurant serving inexpensive, low quality food UK- For Steering You Away From That Ptomaine Palace [Headline] — Chronicle Telegram (Elyria, Ohio), 2 February 1952
- He flatly refused to patronize the local ptomaine palaces. — Ironwood (Michigan) Daily Globe, 13 February 1965
- — Wayne Floyd, Jason’s Authentic Dictionary of CB Slang, p. 25, 1976
- This would be Hardin’s speed, she decided: a roadside ptomaine palace that looked, to Colleen, like a woodshed out of God’s Little Acre. — Dean Ing, The Nemesis Mission, p. 175, 1991
- I jogged across Pacific Coast Highway, after eating dinner at a rustic little ptomaine palace called the Pull Pen, and positioned myself as near as I could to the Doc’s stage-table. — Fling, March 1991
- The place was a ptomaine palace if ever there was one. A gutache waiting to happen. — Peter Straub, Black House, p. 224, 2001
- [T]hese godforsaken ptomaine palaces still teased me with their solid visual credentials. — Gerry Wood, Tales From Country Music, p. 90, 2003
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