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tavernous en · ADJ

Etymology

From tavern + -ous.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a tavern.
   • My Cambridge Union was a low, ill-ventilated, ill-lit apartment at the back of the Red Lion Inn, cavernous, tavernous—something between a commercial room and a district branch meeting-house. 1872, Joseph Irving, The annals of our time: a diurnal of events, social and political, home and foreign, from February 24, 1871, to the Jubilee, June 20, 1887:

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