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tavern

[tav-ern] / ˈtæv ərn /


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Back at the tavern, the men's meeting is wrapping up.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Amongst the group of men outside the tavern is Zizipho Mtwesi, the project co-ordinator of Father A Nation.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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

Sam owed it to me to come home and help Mother run the tavern for a couple of years while I started to make my way in the world.

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

They hiked along the Rhine, stayed in taverns and enjoyed, as Clara wrote in her diary, “the most wonderful things in nature.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

"It's coming to a point now where we are going to lose some of our inns and taverns, never to be returned," he told the BBC.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

His work ethic was set at the same high level as those relatives of his who put in murderous hours inside their taverns, pizza joints, and hoagie shops.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove




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