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barrelhouse

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as in roadhouse

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Recent Examples of barrelhouse The whiskey is composed of five barrel-proof batches drawn from just 129 barrels across three barrelhouses. — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026 And one that can evidently stand up to plenty of time in the barrelhouse. — Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 Flying Leap Vineyards Located in the heart of scenic southern Arizona, Flying Leap Vineyards has a distillery, barrelhouse, tasting room, and event center. — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2024 Many of the new barrelhouses are being built with industrial revenue bonds exempting them from property taxes for years or decades. — Travis Loller, Fortune, 8 July 2023 Jack Daniel's operation there has 92 barrelhouses storing more than 2 million barrels. — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023

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Noun

Down at the Borderline kicks up some roadhouse dirt, for example, while the recent Nobody Held Her Like Me explores soul music.

— Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 15 June 2026
Go to Sharps for cocktails and roadhouse comfort, Rendition for a polished Tukwila night, or Copperleaf for a more elevated Northwest dinner.

— Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 11 May 2026

Definition of roadhouse

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Stir up your own romance at the adults-only hideaway’s suites with swim-up pools, a cabaret show or an intimate beachfront dinner.

— Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
The play reimagines the former First Lady as a hard-drinking woman yearning to become a cabaret star.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 16 July 2026

Definition of cabaret

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Hijinx Hotel also has a full bar and restaurant that could rival any resort’s offerings, with drinks served in novelty glasses and a sweet-savory high tea, three karaoke rooms and a secret speakeasy where the party goes on and on.

— Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 14 July 2026
Silvia Petrova and her family, longtime residents of Saratoga, acquired Bell Tower Café last year and transformed the adjacent building into a riff on a speakeasy, featuring craft cocktails.

— Laura Ness, Mercury News, 12 July 2026

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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

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The seminal former record label, based in Manchester, launched the likes of band Joy Division and ran the famous Haçienda nightclub, on the site of which stand apartments today.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Why the Excelsior Club mattered in Charlotte Founded in 1944 by Jimmie and Minnie McKee, the Excelsior Club was Charlotte’s first nightclub exclusively for the Black community.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026

Definition of nightclub

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Kimberly and three friends held a 3AM meeting at Burning Man, voting to buy and refurbish the hotel and save the bistro.

— Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
Pineapple Grove Arts District Just off Atlantic Avenue, this artsy enclave is best known for its independent boutiques, casual bistros, and a steady lineup of galleries, including House of Perna, Brulé Gastro-Kitchen, and Addison Gallery.

— Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2026

Definition of bistro

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Throughout their first five albums, the band has spun a web, not unlike the orb weavers of their native Virginia, that marries country, rock, honky-tonk grit and Appalachian soul with rowdy barroom energy.

— Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
This fine-dining restaurant puts as much care into its barroom burger as its seven-course tasting menu, letting its open hearth work magic on the double-decker beauty.

— Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 6 May 2026

Definition of barroom

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The big club also contains some relatively intimate spaces, including a family room, a private nursing room, and an intimate whiskey and sports bar.

— Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
In the 1990s and 2000s, the sports bar had locations in Cornelius, University City, South Charlotte, Rock Hill, Indian Land, Kenilworth Avenue and Denver.

— Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026

Definition of sports bar

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