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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

Then the Berlin Wall fell, Navy funds dwindled, budget cuts hit and the tavern emptied out.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 18, 2026

But the officers didn’t come into the tavern; instead, three or four of them rode up to Mr. Heron’s house.

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

The dish, which brings an opulent touch to an otherwise everyman food, is one of several hot dog towers now being served in private suites at stadiums and at high-end taverns.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 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

The windows of the taverns glowed with flickering candlelight, but I didn’t see many people inside.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate




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