Tavern vs Speakeasy - What's the difference?
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A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks; an inn.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
An illegal saloon or tavern operated during the American Prohibition period in the 1920s.