tavern

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Etymology

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From Middle English taverne, from Old French taverne (wine shop), from Latin taberna (inn). Doublet of taberna and taverna.

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tavern (plural taverns)

  1. (dated) A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and offering sleeping accommodations for travelers.
    Synonyms: inn; see also Thesaurus:pub
    • c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. [], 2nd edition, London: [] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
      I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betraies his Maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovv vvhat my boy hath don, Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a Tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.
    • 1859, Omar Khayyam, “(please specify the quatrain number in uppercase Roman numerals)”, in [Edward FitzGerald], transl., Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. [], facsimile edition, London: Bernard Quaritch, [], →OCLC, page 1:
      Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky / I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, / "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup / Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
    • 1892, Walter Besant, “The Select Circle”, in The Ivory Gate [], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, [], →OCLC, page 46:
      At half-past nine on this Saturday evening the parlor of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. [] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for the select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
      At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.
  2. A restaurant or bar.

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tavern

  1. Alternative form of taverne