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tavern

[tav-ern] / ˈtæv ərn /


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Holding a glass jug, Jorge Velazco Rocha crouches before a contraption of wooden barrels stacked in cascading fashion at his roadside tavern along the scrubby flanks of the Volcán de Colima.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

She said of tertulias, the literary debates that took over an evening in a home or tavern, “they certainly ate, but above all, they drank and debated passionately.”

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

The start of the event was moved from a tavern to a pavilion.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

He wears his usual tavern apron and cap, but the expression he wears is troubled.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Hospitality veteran Clemens Keller insists that Vienna's storied "heuriger" winemakers' taverns -- which face a hangover-inducing brew of real estate speculation, spiralling costs and climate change -- cannot rely on their illustrious past.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

His Uncle Frank telling jokes from behind the bar in one of these taverns first piqued Dreesen’s interest in comedy.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

By definition, occupying the gray area between a bar and a restaurant, taverns aren’t fancy.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

I’d just moved to Barcelona and, like any newly anointed local, had been eating pan con tomate – crunchy, tomato-slicked toast – in cafés and taverns all over town.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2025

The sidewalks, shops, taverns, churches, and theaters once again filled with people and buzzed with talk and prayer and gossip.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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