tavern
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At a nearby tavern, a group of men have pulled their chairs into a circle in the dust.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
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
One of us had to stay and watch the tavern.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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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
Not a place of legend, but a supply line for the other taverns.
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
While Washington worried, the city’s taverns, beer gardens, and coffeehouses—all 176 of them—were teeming with activity that Saturday.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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