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beverage room

• a room in which a hotel is licensed to sell beer; beverage room.

  See also: beer parlo(u)r  

  • 1936  (1957)  
    "Bar" is a nasty, a horrible word.
    "Taprooms" and "taverns" and "pubs" are absurd;
    Give us a name with a resonant boom,
    A respectable name like "Beverage Room". . . .
  • 1964  They were rather fussy about their clientele, which is more than you could say for some beverage rooms and cocktail bars.