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Barroom   /bˈɑrrˌum/   Listen
noun
Barroom  n.  
1.
A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.
2.
A commercial establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
Synonyms: bar-room, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom.





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"Barroom" Quotes from Famous Books



... the street and quickly entered the ornate portal of Shultberger's cabaret, which was in reality the annex to his corner barroom. ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball
... had their effect, since "Kid Wolf" was a name well known west of the Chisholm Trail. His reputation had been passed by word of mouth along the border until there were few who had not heard of his deeds. His very name seemed to fill the riffraff of the barroom with courage. Some of them cheered, and all prepared to obey the young Texan's orders. Every one was soon busy loading ...
— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens
... me by telling me that in all human probability Mr. Wax had sold his stealings by this time and was already squandering his ill-gotten gains in a barroom. I lamented not only the ingratitude and dishonesty of this man whom I had sought to befriend, but also the loss of my barrow and my garden tools. There was, however, some consolation in the thought that my experience would serve me to ...
— The House - An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice • Eugene Field
... wish to give the impression that Dr. Dutton knew how corrupt Matthew was. He simply overlooked the boy's evil tendency; but when he came to listen to Mr. Farrington's story, which went into the details and related in full all that occurred in the barroom, and then described the contemptibly mean trick of enticing Fred to his house with the promise of entering with him, it put quite another face on the matter. Moreover, it raised Fred to a height in the doctor's estimation which contrasted ...
— Under Fire - A Tale of New England Village Life • Frank A. Munsey
... yesterday, Tim," said a red-nosed man who had just entered the saloon, in company with a friend of the same general appearance. Both wore silk hats, dented and soiled with stains of dirt, coats long since superannuated, and wore the general look of barroom loafers. ...
— Adrift in New York - Tom and Florence Braving the World • Horatio Alger


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