barrelhouse

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rough-and-tumble drinking establishment.
    — It’s beautiful, but never naïvely so; the pastoral moments were offset by barrelhouse intrusions.
  2. A loud, percussive type of blues piano suitable for noisy bars or taverns.
    — A barrelhouse blues was being shouted over the stamping of feet on a wooden floor. Miss Grace, the good-time woman, had her usual Saturday-night customers.

词形变化

barrelhouses plural

词汇关系

相关词
honky-tonk roadhouse

词源

From barrel + house. Originally used to refer specifically to a bar that served whiskey directly from the barrel.
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