Green’s Dictionary of Slang

prunery n.

[? pruno n. (1) in non-prison sense]

(US) a cheap bar.

[US]H.G. Van Campen ‘Life on Broadway’ in McClure’s Mag. June 80/2: The third assistant head waiter in the grill claims he knew her when she was runnin’ a Forty-third Street prunery.