ミルクホール

noun

milk bar; small shop selling milk, sweets, and light meals (Meiji–Showa)

Historical term for a type of casual eatery common from the Meiji through early Showa periods. Served milk, simple Western-style snacks, and light meals. Now obsolete as a business type.

wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from milk hall

• 明めい治じ時じ代だい、ミルクホールは学がく生せいたちのたまり場ばだった。

  In the Meiji period, milk bars were hangouts for students.

• この古ふるい写しゃ真しんには、銀ぎん座ざにあったミルクホールが写うつっている。

  This old photo shows a milk bar that was in Ginza.