as in tavern
a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises
cowboys drinking in the saloon after their work was done for the day
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Recent Examples of saloon
Mannix also owns and runs two restaurants, including the Old Salt Outpost, a small burger shop inside the Gold Bar saloon in downtown Helena.
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Jim Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
Originally called El Dorado Street, the stretch of Post was San Jose’s original red-light district, with saloons and gambling rooms aplenty.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025
But, as Baldwin notes, pubs and saloons were improper, unwelcoming, and sometimes dangerous environments for women, and were effectively male-only establishments whose facilities only catered to men.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Jan. 2025
The full-coverage fly kept us pretty warm while camping with 40-degree nights, but there are also two saloon doors.
—Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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Jim Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
Originally called El Dorado Street, the stretch of Post was San Jose’s original red-light district, with saloons and gambling rooms aplenty.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025
But, as Baldwin notes, pubs and saloons were improper, unwelcoming, and sometimes dangerous environments for women, and were effectively male-only establishments whose facilities only catered to men.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Jan. 2025
The full-coverage fly kept us pretty warm while camping with 40-degree nights, but there are also two saloon doors.
—Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saloon
Noun
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The regular inspections include restaurants, taverns, grocery stores, meat markets and bakeries.—
Ashley Fredde,
Idaho Statesman,
8 Apr. 2025
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Be sure to keep an eye out as the windmill atop the tavern is engulfed in flames several times an hour.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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McHale’s, an Irish pub that once had locations in Rock Hill and Fort Mill, will reopen in Charlotte, but a timeline has not been shared.—
Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Apr. 2025
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Graham Dickie/The New York Times Listen to this article · 8:21 min Learn more March 26, 2025 Misty Gonzales has been tending bar at T.J. Byrnes, an Irish pub in the financial district of Manhattan, for 13 years.—
Charles W. McFarlane,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Free coffee for dancing customers at this cafe — check it out!—
Peter Burke,
Fox News,
14 Mar. 2025
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Inside, there’s a cafe, a conference room, a play area for children, a quiet room for people with sensory and nursing needs, and gender neutral restrooms.—
Brianna Taylor,
Sacramento Bee,
14 Mar. 2025
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About midway through, his character, searching for a trafficked young woman, poses as a drug dealer looking to score a connection with a local kingpin holding court in the backroom of a biker bar.—
Donald Liebenson,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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The judge sentenced the former G-Unit rapper to 30 days behind bars.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 2025
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Later, Dorian visits an opium den, which Williams transforms into a modern-day nightclub, complete with techno, strobe lights, and a gay character smoking from a crystal meth pipe.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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On March 14, a group of Log Cabin Republicans visited the Badlands nightclub in Sacramento after spending the day at an organizational meeting for the California Republican Party, as the Sacramento Bee reported.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Saloon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saloon. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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