See also: Bar (homonymy)

A bar (or bar ) is small a coffee and sometimes small a Restaurant.

Etymology

The origin of the word bar dubious and is discussed.

It could be a question of a regionalism imported in Paris at the 19th century from where he diffused himself through France. Perhaps poitevin “bistraud” or “mastroquet” (northern of France)/“bistroquet” (southern of France) meaning at the beginning servant, then the servant of the wine merchant, then the wine merchant itself. What tends to reinforce this assumption is that the word “bar” meant, at the beginning of the 20th century, “tenant of bar” as well as “establishment where one serves as the wine”: Over the counter a large bouquet triumphed. Because of the festival of the bar Martrodin. “A gift of the children! that he announced itself to us”. The husband wanted absolutely that the bar is put to recite him the sub-prefectures of the Loir-et-Cher because him he had learned them and he still knew them. Some brought it closer to the word “bistrouille”, mixture of coffee and as alcohol in the north which would have given its name to the establishment where one was used it but runs up against the fact that the direction first was not the establishment but that which was useful

External bonds

• Memory of end of studies on the bars and their microcosm
• Etymology of the word '' bar '' by Bernard Cerquiglini in Thank you professor! on TV5

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