dépanneur

/ ˌdɛpəˈnɜː /

noun

1. (in Quebec) a convenience store

Word History and Origins

Origin of dépanneur¹

from Canadian French

Example Sentences

“If we were to close, we would not reopen,” said Sabrina Meinhardt, the director of operations at Dépanneur in Brooklyn.

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One warm morning last fall, that week’s group of cooks milled about the Depanneur’s large communal table, sharing jokes and drinking coffee with homemade anise-flavored cookies.

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“There is no official translation,” said Len Senater, who owns the Depanneur.

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No Syrian food businesses has felt the spotlight more acutely than Newcomer Kitchen, a nonprofit group of women who come together each Wednesday to cook a traditional Syrian meal in a small cafe and food business incubator called the Depanneur.

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“If the weather was sunny, we would have had a lot of ghetto kids there,” he said the next day over a burger at Le Dépanneur, a local restaurant.

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