barrelhouse

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Recent Examples of barrelhouse 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 Since work began in 2018 on Jack Daniel's barrelhouse project in Lincoln County, six have been completed. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023 Jack Daniel, headquartered in neighboring Moore County, got approval in 2018 to build two barrelhouses in Lincoln County. Peter Weber, The Week, 2 Mar. 2023 Tracy Ferry said that since Jack Daniel’s built a barrelhouse next to her house in December, whiskey fungus had been accumulating on the roof of her home and car and on trees on her property. Michael Levenson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023 Across the record, Batiste also raps, stomps like a preacher and wails like a barrelhouse bluesman. Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2022 The expansion could allow one outpost to focus on manufacturing while the other becomes somewhat of a barrelhouse for aging and testing. Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barrelhouse
Noun
  • This includes cops on the take and a Joliet roadhouse drug dealer (Chidi Ajufo) who livens things up.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The track, produced by Blake Slatkin and longtime Lizzo collaborator Ricky Reed, is a placid Strokes-y thumper whose riff periodically breaks free from its cage during a chorus that kicks the aughts-rock shtick back a few decades into roadhouse territory.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Later in the piece, as the audience is ushered into a decadent cabaret space carved out of the Agger Fish Building, another amazing and largely untold tale is teased, revealed, and spun.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 2 May 2025
  • That venue has since closed, so the show has been transferred to Mrs. Murphy’s, which previously hosted Ghostlight’s holiday cabarets.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The atmosphere felt like a fusion between a calm 1970s disco and a 1920s speakeasy.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • To Find High-End Furniture in New York, Look Up The city’s new designer décor showrooms are hidden away from foot traffic, making shopping for furniture feel like visiting a speakeasy.
    Craig Kellogg Ashok Sinha, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Pleasure Island nightclubs are closed as the area is absorbed into an area eventually known as Disney Springs.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2025
  • This left him little choice but to adopt a punishing schedule of nightclub gigs to generate income.
    Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The second floor houses the main bedroom, an en suite bathroom, and sliding glass doors that lead out to a charming deck with room for a bistro table and a few plants.
    Toni Sutton, People.com, 9 May 2025
  • There, McNally’s fascination with archetypal French brasseries and bistros took hold.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • That barroom style played right into the music surrounding Betty Boop.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The former Aliso Viejo High School student, now an Irvine resident, became a prominent Southern California restaurateur after earning her stripes in the barroom trenches.
    Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Make a reservation with your couch or local sports bar for this game.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • Your mouth will be full of gauze or cotton balls and your eyes will be half-closed like last call at a sports bar.
    Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025

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“Barrelhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrelhouse. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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