From Amy Thomas, author of Paris, My Sweet. A love affair with Paris, New York, sweets and, now, a little girl named Parker.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
French phrase of the day: un pilier de comptoir
Def: a bar regular
The literal translation is “a pillar of the bar”. Sort of like a barfly, but this term is more specifically someone who is always at the same bar, same place, same drink. I guess like Norm.
Interesting. In my pre- Provence life I was definitely un pilier de comptoir. Damn I miss that bar.
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