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alehouse

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Definition of alehouse

as in roadhouse

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Recent Examples of alehouse At the airport, a group of cadets loitered by a lactation pod, and people at the terminal alehouse seemed to be having a genuinely good time. — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026 Carrying news, satire and story into places where expensive books had seldom reached, they were sold for pennies, tacked to alehouse walls and sung aloud for the illiterate. — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025 On a video call Finger demonstrated a few use cases, including a woman sitting in a modern Los Angeles garage that became a woman riding a horse in an old Western town, or two men sitting at a backyard table who were suddenly in a Medieval alehouse. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025 The classic alehouse is a stone’s throw away from Leeds’ home ground, and on April 28, the fans were in a celebratory mood. — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 15 May 2025 This Livermore movie theater and alehouse will show the NFC championship in high-def on a 30-foot screen. — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024 The London Evening Post didn’t give her name, simply identifying her as the keeper of the Queen’s Head alehouse. — Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022 In the late seventies, the bar came under the ownership of the proprietor of a now defunct Bronx alehouse called the Liffy, like the river. — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017

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Noun

Texas native blends roadhouse rock, bluesy R&B and country-friend funky-tonk.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
Hackney on Harms is actually the original Hackney’s, a tavern and roadhouse that opened after the end of Prohibition in the 1930s.

— Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of roadhouse

Noun

There are two full-service eateries—a Mediterranean spot, Muze Lounge & Terrasse, and a French bistro, Commodore Restaurant—as well as an indoor pool and a dry sauna where guests can luxuriate.

— Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2026
That restaurant is Faux, a neo-bistro that opened a few days ago on Church Street—just steps away from many galleries on White Street.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of bistro

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The last of Lila and Amisha’s henchmen has fled with the remaining supply of poison aerosol, intending to detonate it, on Amisha’s orders, at a nightclub.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
Young used the proceeds to take luxury trips to Tahiti, and used funds to open a nightclub in Inglewood called the Six Seven Five Lounge and other commercial real estate projects, prosecutors allege.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of nightclub

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And an afternoon slugging pints at Hog’s Head at Wizarding World of Harry Potter is certainly not the equivalent of a day at an authentic British pub.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Located on the same plot that formerly housed Hamilton’s Tavern, Bock has the look and feel of a European pub.

— Brandon Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2026

Definition of pub

Noun

Regan is accused of assaulting a fellow trooper at the ReelHouse brewpub in Marina Bay on June 26 in a one-sided fight that was shown in a video taken off the bar’s security camera.

— Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 2026
Douglas County, Nevada, sheriff’s deputies said the charges stemmed from a verbal and physical altercation with a brewpub employee, the Daily Tribune reported at the time.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of brewpub

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The old tavern sign, which used to feature a portrait of King George III, now sports the image of another George—George Washington.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
That same desire for warmth and color is fueling a vintage tavern lighting trend.

— Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of tavern

Noun

Cruz surfaces in it as a bawdy cabaret singer, a role the size of a cameo that critics off the Croisette and now here at Telluride have already tagged a scene-stealer.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
While all of the women found their respective moment to shine, no one rose to the occasion quite like Luann de Lesseps, who seemingly decided on her own that Kyle’s white party would be the perfect backdrop for a cabaret performance like none other.

— Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of cabaret

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