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tavern

[tav-ern] / ˈtæv ərn /


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Today, the first-floor eatery serves classic American comfort food, while the tavern features an original 1920 bar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

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

If we lost our cattle, we’d be in a lot of trouble because we’d have no way of getting rum and the things we needed to run the store and the tavern.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier




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