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Tavern
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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the old name for an inn, a public house where liquor is sold and food is supplied to travellers. It is, however, now usually applied to a small ale-house where liquor only is supplied. The word comes through Fr. from Lat. taberna, a booth; shop, inn. It is usually connected with the root seen in "tabula," board, whence Eng. "table," and thus meant originally a hut or booth made of planks or boards of wood.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Tavern'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/tavern.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Tavern'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/tavern.html. 1910.
