barroom
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See also: bar room
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
barroom (plural barrooms)
- (Canada, US) A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
- Synonym: taproom
- 1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:
- Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.
Usage notes
In the US, the terms barroom and bar room are uncommon, eschewed in favor of bar.
Derived terms
Translations
room serving alcoholic drinks
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