: a room or establishment whose main feature is a bar for the sale of liquor : bar entry 1 sense 5b
a barroom brawl
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Examples of barroom in a Sentence
a barroom long popular with working folks looking for a place to unwind at the end of the day
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The building was originally designed with 20 rooms upstairs with a barroom, card rooms and billiard tables on the first floor.
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The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
Restaurateurs elsewhere drop seven figures to conjure what’s found all over the lower French Quarter: barrooms that seem sprung from cracks in the sidewalk, left to age for decades in the humidor of New Orleans.
—Brett Anderson, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
Sometimes something simple is all that’s needed for a barroom on a Friday night.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024
And plenty of goodwill is generated in Downtown Nashville barroom conversations, one of the fundamentals of CRS that hasn’t changed all that much.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
Her debut album, On the Lips, evokes film-noir interludes and barroom blues, inviting guests like Nick Hakim and BadBadNotGood’s Chester Hansen into its smoky underworld.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 16 Feb. 2024
Just down Broadway Street across from CHS Field, the new Metronome Brewery hosts live jazz, string quartets, cabaret and other musical acts in its basement barroom dubbed Fingal’s Cave.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2024
This last movement, with its not-so-reckless abandon, was the big thrill of the night, Cho quickening his dialogue with the orchestra, intensifying his feats of dynamic derring-do, even applying a bit of barroom swagger here and there.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
In modern times this means our best barrooms are also home to wildly good food, meaning an after-dinner drink can easily turn into a whole other meal.
—Jordan Michelman, Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2024
The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
Restaurateurs elsewhere drop seven figures to conjure what’s found all over the lower French Quarter: barrooms that seem sprung from cracks in the sidewalk, left to age for decades in the humidor of New Orleans.
—Brett Anderson, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
Sometimes something simple is all that’s needed for a barroom on a Friday night.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024
And plenty of goodwill is generated in Downtown Nashville barroom conversations, one of the fundamentals of CRS that hasn’t changed all that much.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
Her debut album, On the Lips, evokes film-noir interludes and barroom blues, inviting guests like Nick Hakim and BadBadNotGood’s Chester Hansen into its smoky underworld.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 16 Feb. 2024
Just down Broadway Street across from CHS Field, the new Metronome Brewery hosts live jazz, string quartets, cabaret and other musical acts in its basement barroom dubbed Fingal’s Cave.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2024
This last movement, with its not-so-reckless abandon, was the big thrill of the night, Cho quickening his dialogue with the orchestra, intensifying his feats of dynamic derring-do, even applying a bit of barroom swagger here and there.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
In modern times this means our best barrooms are also home to wildly good food, meaning an after-dinner drink can easily turn into a whole other meal.
—Jordan Michelman, Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2024
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“Barroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barroom. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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barroom
noun
bar·room
ˈbär-ˌrüm 
-ˌru̇m
: a place of business for the sale of alcoholic drinks
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