(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three male college seniors were asked to drink beer at their normal rate in a simulated tavern setting.
(2) Storing the coins offline, as TradeFortress now recommends, is technologically more complex – and also makes it harder to spend them in the real world (for example, if attempting to buy a beer in Hackney's Pembury Tavern ).
(3) Seeing a sign for a bar, I hiked up an iron staircase to the Esquire Tavern (155 East Commerce St), and felt as if I'd stepped on to the set of a Sam Peckinpah film.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A New York City police officer calls for help as he kneels near a victim of the Fraunces Tavern bombing.
(5) Like his first opera, 1972’s Taverner , this was music composed at white-heat, and in retrospect no composer could have maintained such intense creativity indefinitely.
(6) The three other finalists were The Drovers Rest in Carlisle, the Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield and The Yard of Ale, a micropub in Broadstairs, Kent.
(7) Zylberberg, who was on the islands last month with many Argentinian participants in the Falklands marathon, was filmed doing exercises outside the Globe Tavern in the islands' capital, Port Stanley, running past the offices of the Penguin News newspaper and doing step-ups at a British war memorial.
(8) "Detroit is a city like no other these days," said McEwan, whose two-year-old mini-tavern rarely has a room free.
(9) The bar of my favourite hotel, the Belmont ( belmontdallas.com , stylish rooms from $99), patios at Bryan Street Tavern ( bryanstreettavern.com ) and The Cedars Social ( thecedarssocial.com ) are some of the locations affording great views.
(10) Maxwell Davies himself thought that the 50s were his best period, but the general consensus is that beyond the oft-performed expressionist scores, his really great work is Taverner, which has not been seen since its inaugural production.
(11) In Fairplay we passed up the grill at McCall’s Park Bar – a rowdy tavern packed with hunters and cowboys – in favour of spaghetti at the Valiton Hotel .
(12) At the bottom of Les Molliettes lift, +33 450 342208 bethnalgreengirl La Taverne d'Alsace, Val d'Isère La Taverne d'Alsace, Val d'Isère This restaurant, part of Hotel Kandahar but with a separate entrance, doesn't get much hype but serves gorgeous Alsatian food that's not too stodgy – like choucroute and excellent ham hock.
(13) When the pub's operators moved out, the Catford Bridge Tavern became a squat - at least until the group of around 20 residents were evicted last month.
(14) Persons going to taverns, lounges, nightclubs and private clubs differ in social characteristics and these attributes are related to the activities and social functions associated with the various types of public drinking establishments.
(15) It was predicted and found that the taste-rating task led to more frequent sipping, smaller sip volume and a steeper decline in sipping across the 15 min drinking period than a procedurally similar tavern-evaluation task.
(16) This is their first collection and ranges over anarchist community builders, tough river pilots, militant socialist trade unionists, new women, coffee taverns, riots and garden suburbs.
(17) From the raucous taverns of the Shire to the dreaming spires of Gondor, there will be palpable relief today.
(18) "As I came through Highbury & Islington tube station at lunchtime today, the number of be-kilted Scotsman who were queueing up for photos outside the Famous Cock Tavern with irony intent was surely greater than the most optimistic YES vote," reports Stuey X.
(19) Dick Taverne House of Lords • Mr Blair is right to speak up for Britain’s role in the European Union , an organisation which clearly needs a lot of help at the moment, apparently trapped in a northern European mindset of well-intentioned universal principles applied with totalitarian consistency.
(20) Close up your counting house on Christmas Eve and watch your clerk slide homewards along the ice slide on Cornhill, before slouching around the corner to take your “melancholy dinner” in the “usual melancholy tavern”.