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liquor_lounge

liquor lounge

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Noun

liquor lounge (plural liquor lounges)

  1. A business with seating, where alcoholic beverages may be purchased and consumed.
    • 1953 Jan. 13, "‘Lounge Club’ Opens Just For Republicans," Lewiston Morning Tribune, p. 9 (retrieved 28 Nov 2013):
      "If ever I have been disheartened," he said in a sermon, "it was when I learned that within a stone's throw of the Capitol, there is going to be opened up, by the new leaders of government, a liquor lounge where they may go for cocktails and then into separate rooms for conferences."
    • 1970 June 15, "Still no beer," Windsor Star (Canada), p. 20 (retrieved 28 Nov 2013):
      The meeting followed a week of demonstrations at the stately downtown Canadian National hotel, following announcement last Monday of regulations governing dress in the hotel beer parlor and liquor lounge.
    • 2010, Ronald A. White, Centurion Justice, ISBN 9781450235723, p. 18 (Google preview):
      A restaurant in the front of the building with a little liquor lounge in the back. The spot where there was always music, drinking, gambling, tricking and every now and then some killing.

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