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Definition of Tavern |
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Tavern
A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities. Related Definitions: An, And, Are, Especially, Hotel, House, In, Inn, Licensed, Liquor, Modern, Other, Public, Quantities, Sell, Small, Times, To, Transient, Where, With |
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Tavern Quotations
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. Jonathan Swift There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. Samuel Johnson There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. Samuel Johnson People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. Mikhail Bakunin What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. Gwendolyn Brooks I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling. Henry Mayhew Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. Norman Douglas Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. Edward Moore For whoever is lonely there is a tavern. Georg Trakl Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts. Samuel G. Engel |
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Tavern Translations
tavern in Dutch is herberg, uitspanning tavern in French is taverne tavern in German is Gasthaus, Kneipe tavern in Spanish is taberna |
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