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tavern

[tav-ern] / ˈtæv ərn /


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And so Washington’s authority was solidified when Lee, clad in a shirt and slippers, was surprised in a New Jersey tavern and captured.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

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

They marched past the tavern, pulled off onto the training ground, and broke formation.

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

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

The printers, the bookshops, the guesthouses and taverns, they followed.

From Salon Jun. 23, 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

The latter here is represented via a large puppet created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, and the walk-through experience will take us from taverns to the back alley of a marketplace to the beholder’s lair.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2025

With a market area of shops, churches, and taverns, it was home to about seven hundred residents, about half of whom were enslaved African Americans.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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