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(historical) A sort of outdoor tavern that once existed in the suburbs of Paris
1903, Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book VIII.:
Our walks, tete-a-tete, on the outside of the city, where I magnificently spent eight or ten sous in each guinguette.
1837, John Ruskin, The Poetry of Architecture:
So again, a Tyrolese evening dance, though the costume, and the step, and the music may be different, is the same in feeling as that of the Parisian guinguette; but follow the Tyrolese into their temples, and their deep devotion and beautiful though superstitious reverence will be found very different from any feeling exhibited during a mass in Notre-Dame.
French
La guinguette, Vincent van Gogh 1886
Etymology
From guinguet, a type of wine typically served in these places.
