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  2. Tavern - Wikipedia

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    A tavern is a type of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food such as different types of roast meats and cheese, and (mostly historically) where travelers would receive lodging.

  3. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    1. Establishment, bar, tavern or club selling alcohol [273] 2. Place e.g. My Joint [273] jorum of skee Drink of hard liquor usually scotch whiskey; see skee [274] jug. Main article: Prison. Jail [275] juice Money from bribery, corruption, or loan sharking [276] juice joint. Main article: Speakeasy. Establishment for serving illegal liquor ...

  4. Drinking establishment - Wikipedia

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    A tavern or pot-house is, loosely, a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and, more than likely, also be served food, though not licensed to put up guests. The word derives from the Latin taberna and the Greek ταβέρνα/taverna, whose original meaning was a shed or workshop.

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    Ann Arbor is a city in and the county seat of Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.Founded in 1824 by John Allen and Elisha Rumsey, it was named after the wives of the village's founders, both named Ann, and the stands of bur oak trees they found there.

  6. Taverns in North America - Wikipedia

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    The Vera Cruz Tavern in Vera Cruz, Pennsylvania. Taverns in North America date back to colonial America.Colonial Americans drank a variety of distilled spirits. As the supply of distilled spirits, especially rum, increased, and their price dropped, they became the drink of choice throughout the colonies. [1]

  7. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  8. List of closed pairs of English rhyming words - Wikipedia

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    In a dactylic pair, each word is a dactyl and has the first syllable stressed and the second and third syllables unstressed.. agitate, sagittate; analyst, panellist; article, particle

  9. Pub names - Wikipedia

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    Chemic Tavern (formerly Chemical Tavern), Leeds, West Yorkshire. Named for the workers at the nearby Woodhouse Chemical Works, (C. 1840–1900) it was a beer house on the 1861 census when the licensee was James Lapish. [207] [208] Custom House Tavern, Wisbech: (now closed) named for the local customs post in the port. [3]