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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

Opened in 2022, Stissing House leans into the building’s history as a tavern as far back as the 18th century.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Alex walked through Port Tallon, past the Fisherman’s Arms tavern and up the cobbled street toward the library.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz




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