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Where pints are poured
Answer for the clue "Where pints are poured ", 6 letters:
tavern
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Word definitions for tavern in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tavern \Tav"ern\, n. [OE. taverne, F. taverne, from L. taberna a hut, booth, tavern. Cf. Table , Tabernacle .] A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks; an inn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "wine shop," later "public house" (mid-15c.), from Old French taverne (mid-13c.) "shed made of boards, booth, stall," also "tavern, inn," from Latin taberna "shop, inn, tavern," originally "hut, shed, rude dwelling," possibly [Klein] by dissimilation ...
Usage examples of tavern.
Resembling Ivy in miniature, the leaves have been used in weaving chaplets for the dead, as well as for adorning the Alestake erected as a sign at taverns.
He is still alive, and somewhere wearily goes up and down the stairs of strange houses, stares somewhere at clean-scoured parquet floors and carefully tended araucarias, sits for days in libraries and nights in taverns, or lying on a hired sofa, listens to the world beneath his window and the hum of human life from which he knows that he is excluded.
Tiarna Mac Ard pushed open the door of the tavern so that Maeve and Jenna could enter, then, as quickly, the chatter resumed again as everyone pretended not to notice that the tiarna had brought company with him.
He was an Argon, that much she knew from the frenzied whisperings and gawking of the tavern wenches around her.
Several of the veteran fishermen were suddenly eager for his viewpoint on baiting, and on any number of other topics, at the local tavern where everyone hung out.
Rene and his men to tend to the horses and themselves at a stable nearby, he went into the tavern, which was known to every cutpurse and bawd in London.
Nest, sipping his fourth cup of Eardley bitters, when Dario returned to the tavern.
Roger knocked out his pipe, turned Bock out of his chair, and sat down with infinite relish to read the memorable character sketch of Christopher, the head waiter, which is dear to every lover of taverns.
Sundays all business was closed, everyone went to church, and afterward working people gathered in the taverns while the bourgeois promenaded in the faubourgs.
I might deem myself worthy to challenge the likes of Bungo, and on that day I will return, for I have no doubt that you will still be the champion of this tavern.
Audible groans issued throughout the tavern as Bungo pulled up a chair to share a drink with the impressive stranger.
At her feet, Caille sat cross-legged with the tavern cat upside down in the cradle of her legs, its eyes squinched shut and its head flung blissfully back against her as she stroked its throat.
Elora had done the damage, their distress had flowed into Caille and through her into the floorboards of the tavern and every living thing felt it now, even the traders.
When I got to the tavern I asked for a private room, and the landlord, perceiving that I did not know English, accosted me in French, and came to keep me company.
At last the day dawned, and the keeper of the tavern came to see who the prisoner was.