tavern
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
tavern (plural taverns)
- A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and usually offering accommodation; an inn.
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- See also Thesaurus:pub
- French: taverne
- German: Gasthaus
- Italian: taverna, osteria, birreria
- Portuguese: taberna
- Russian: бар
- Spanish: taberna
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