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tav⋅ern

[tav-ern]
–noun
1. a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
2. a public house for travelers and others; inn.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME taverne < OF < L taberna hut, inn, wine shop


tav⋅ern⋅less, adjective


1. bar; pub. 2. hostelry. See hotel.
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Word Origin & History

tavern 
c.1297 (in Anglo-Fr. from 1286), "wine shop," later "public house" (c.1440), from O.Fr. taverne (1256) "shed made of boards, booth, stall," also "tavern, inn," from L. taberna "shop, inn, tavern," originally "hut, shed," possibly by dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs (gen. trabis) "beam, timber."
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