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Definition of Barroom

1. Noun. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter. "He drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar"

Definition of Barroom

1. n. A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

Definition of Barroom

1. Noun. A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Barroom

1. a room where liquor is sold [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barroom

Literary usage of Barroom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"A license to keep a "tavern" In the licensee's brick house applied to a frame room j adjoining it, which was used as the barroom, i Gray v. ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1919)
"379, 84 Atl. 128, in charging the janr, in a case in which recovery was sought for injuries sustained in being ejected from the barroom of a hotel, ..."

3. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"Was in the barroom and kitchen at time mentioned; did not observe anything unusual about How, either in coat or otherwise. THE PEOPLE IN REBUTTAL. ..."

4. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52: Being a Series of by Thomas C. Russell (1922)
"... Fight in the barroom - Eastern lady "chose to go faint" at sight of blood - Cabin full of "infant phenomena" - A rarity in the mountains - Miners, ..."

5. Tom Keenan, Locomotive Engineer: A Story of Fifty Years on the Rail as Told by Neason Jones (1904)
"... VIII COUNTING THE COST Another barroom Incident—Persecution—A Hotel Landlord Converted—An Engine With Two Headlights. THE news that I had been converted ..."

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