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Soda fountain

noun

A counter where ice cream and sodas and sundaes are prepared and served.

An apparatus for dispensing soda water.

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"Soda fountain" Quotes from Famous Books

... had gin the party, she could have used that old spoutin' Geyser for a teapot or a soda fountain—if she laid out to treat ...

— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley

... said 'here comes the Christian Association,' and those bad boys let the dog go. They tried to find the dog after the crowd had got by, but the dog knew his business. Well, I must go down and charge the soda fountain for a picnic that ...

— The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy - Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 • George W. Peck

... feast. That glorified drug-store with the five bays included in its manifold functions a department rivalling Delmonico's, with electric fans and marble-topped tables and white-clad waiters who took one's order and filled it at the soda fountain. It mattered little to Eda that the young man awaiting their commands had pimples and long hair and grinned affectionately as he ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... young man let the syrup stream into the glass as he smiled affably. Thinking, perhaps, to draw out the odd character, he ventured upon a jest himself, repeating a pun invented by the man who made the first soda fountain. With a sweep of his arm he cleared away the swarm of insects as he remarked, "People who like a fly ...

— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various

... snapped Zillah Forsyth. "I'll have you understand that there are nine thousand people in the town I come from—and not a rube among them. Why I tended soda fountain in the swellest drug-store there a whole year before I even thought of taking up nursing. And I wasn't as green—when I was six months ...

— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott