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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

Among the highlights are a recreated 18th-century tavern and Loyalist print shop.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

Father was born in Redding where we have our tavern, but Mother was born over in New York.

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

Along steep and narrow trails, a few rustic taverns for wine guzzling seem incongruous in the midst of all of the ruggedness.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

Soon, Paine’s pamphlet was everywhere — whispered by soldiers in Valley Forge tents, shouted in Philadelphia taverns, quoted in sermons.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 20, 2025

The long main street, with its two banks and the loud row of taverns, was enough to bring her back to the days of the dormitory.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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