单词 | barroom |
释义 | > as lemmasbar-room bar-room n. bar-room bar-room n. the public room containing the bar in a tavern or hotel, a taproom; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar tapstryc1460 ale stand1588 tap1725 bar-room1797 taproom1807 estaminet1814 saloon1841 sample room1865 cantina1892 mahogany1896 beverage room1936 spit and sawdust1937 1797 J. Hiltzheimer Diary 28 July (1893) 245 Seider's contrivance for bringing water from a spring in his garden, through pipes into his bar-room. 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. lxxx. 231 The bar-room of a public-house is what in England is called a tap-room. 1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home i. 9 When my husband..drew with a piece of chalk on the bar-room table at Danforth's the plan of a village. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 203 Major Pawkins proposed an adjournment to a neighbouring bar-room. 1946 W. H. Auden in H. James Amer. Scene (new ed.) Introd. p. v One can easily imagine Stendhal or Tolstoi or Dostoievsky becoming involved in a bar-room fight, but James, never. 1954 Encounter Mar. 19/1 Those women in Western movies who share the hero's understanding of life are prostitutes (or, as they are usually presented, bar-room entertainers). < as lemmas |
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