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Tavern keeper   /tˈævərn kˈipər/   Listen
Tavern keeper

noun
1.
The keeper of a public house.  Synonym: publican.





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"Tavern keeper" Quotes from Famous Books



... battle had to be fought continually. A saw-mill and a grist-mill were built and no man was employed who drank to excess. The tavern keeper, who had expected to reap a rich harvest from the factory, was very indignant at the temperance regulations. He put every temptation in the way of the mill-hands, but Daniel Anthony remained firm. ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... Once the tavern keeper stopped Vlasova on the street. He was a dapper old man, who always wore a black silk neckerchief around his red, flabby neck, and a thick, lilac-colored waistcoat of velvet around his body. On his sharp, glistening nose there ...
— Mother • Maxim Gorky


Words linked to "Tavern keeper" :   bartender, barman, mixologist, U.K., Great Britain, tapster, UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, tapper, United Kingdom, Britain, publican, barkeeper, barkeep


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