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barrelhouse

noun

Definition of barrelhouse

as in roadhouse

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Recent Examples of barrelhouse The whiskey is composed of five barrel-proof batches drawn from just 129 barrels across three barrelhouses. — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026 And one that can evidently stand up to plenty of time in the barrelhouse. — Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 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

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Noun

Texas native blends roadhouse rock, bluesy R&B and country-friend funky-tonk.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
Hackney on Harms is actually the original Hackney’s, a tavern and roadhouse that opened after the end of Prohibition in the 1930s.

— Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of roadhouse

Noun

While all of the women found their respective moment to shine, no one rose to the occasion quite like Luann de Lesseps, who seemingly decided on her own that Kyle’s white party would be the perfect backdrop for a cabaret performance like none other.

— Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
Tucked at the back of one barber shop is Screaming Alley, a cabaret production company supporting independent artists.

— Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of cabaret

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At the airport, a group of cadets loitered by a lactation pod, and people at the terminal alehouse seemed to be having a genuinely good time.

— Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
Carrying news, satire and story into places where expensive books had seldom reached, they were sold for pennies, tacked to alehouse walls and sung aloud for the illiterate.

— Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025

Definition of alehouse

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Broadway-loving teens will fall madly in love with this 2001 musical classic about the infamous French nightclub, its star performer Satine, and her poem-writing love Christian—Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in two of their best roles.

— Kara Nesvig, Parents, 29 Aug. 2026
That means his restaurant and nightclub venues will continue to work within the budgets of the major American players, while still offering a superior product to ensure repeat business.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of nightclub

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Head baker Lou Turner (formerly pastry chef at Obelix, a French bistro in the city’s River North) churns out superb pastries that invite obsession.

— The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026
For hard evidence of this, go to up-and-coming Micklegate Street, a cobbled thoroughfare lined with intimate eateries like cottagecore coffeehouse Partisan, tapas spot Sotano, and contemporary British bistros Skosh and The Rattle Owl.

— Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of bistro

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Throughout their first five albums, the band has spun a web, not unlike the orb weavers of their native Virginia, that marries country, rock, honky-tonk grit and Appalachian soul with rowdy barroom energy.

— Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
This fine-dining restaurant puts as much care into its barroom burger as its seven-course tasting menu, letting its open hearth work magic on the double-decker beauty.

— Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 6 May 2026

Definition of barroom

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There are regulars who show up every Wednesday for trivia and groups who have made a particular night at the sports bar part of their week.

— Evan Moore August 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2026
In June, as New York Knicks fever reached an all-time high and fans across the country flooded their local bars for the NBA Finals, Moroccanoil invited its community to a buzzy sports bar in Lower Manhattan for game four of the series.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of sports bar

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