(in French-speaking countries) a tobacconist's shop.
（法语国家中的）烟草店
Example sentencesExamples
The fact that the small ‘tabac’ or tobacconist's shop within the café is to be closed by the new owner of Deux Moulins has intensified regulars' fears.
Even the minority who think the euro a catastrophe and see themselves not as Europeans, not even as French citizens primarily, but as ‘Savoyards’, have been to the tabac and bought a starter pack of coins.
And meanwhile behind me was a line of cars, like the muttering people at the tabac, impatient for me to get moving.
The Seattle-based retailer is taking France's coffee-drinking traditions either standing up at the tabac or stretched out after a long lunch head on.
Origin
French, literally tobacco.
Definition of tabac in US English:
tabac
nountäˈbäk
(in French-speaking regions) a tobacconist's shop.
（法语国家中的）烟草店
Example sentencesExamples
The fact that the small ‘tabac’ or tobacconist's shop within the café is to be closed by the new owner of Deux Moulins has intensified regulars' fears.
And meanwhile behind me was a line of cars, like the muttering people at the tabac, impatient for me to get moving.
Even the minority who think the euro a catastrophe and see themselves not as Europeans, not even as French citizens primarily, but as ‘Savoyards’, have been to the tabac and bought a starter pack of coins.
The Seattle-based retailer is taking France's coffee-drinking traditions either standing up at the tabac or stretched out after a long lunch head on.