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tavern

[tav-ern] / ˈtæv ərn /


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While it certainly helps, you don’t need to own a historic building to open a tavern.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The police added that the tavern was licensed.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

In “Twenty-Sided Tavern,” there are three core actors playing and acting out the game, one dungeon master and a sort of tavern keeper helping to keep score and track of the story.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

We could have been in a sailor’s tavern in Whitefish Bay in 1975.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

In 1864, Mary Surratt, under a cloud of suspicion over her husband’s loyalty to the Union, had moved her family to her Washington, D.C., boardinghouse and rented the tavern to John Lloyd.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson




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