Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inn or tavern on the roadside, used as a place of refreshment by those driving along the road.
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Examples
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He knew the road-house at the entrance to the town, though he had never been there.
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The road-house was only moderately full; they got a table in a corner and ordered ham and eggs and beer.
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He had managed a road-house near London, on the Great West Road, and he had travelled in haberdashery.
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"They take this for a road-house," chuckled Belden in his ear.
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When I was about ten I remember going with my dad to a road-house bar and restaurant on the Susquehanna River near the Rodham cottage at Lake Winola.
Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton 2003
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So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door.
The Great Gatsby 2003
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It happened in a picturesque Mexican road-house of rather loose repute, as appeared later; and to some it seemed that for once the priest had allowed a romantic streak in him, and his sympathy for human weakness, to lead him into loose and unorthodox action.
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"They take this for a road-house," chuckled Belden in his ear.
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It happened in a picturesque Mexican road-house of rather loose repute, as appeared later; and to some it seemed that for once the priest had allowed a romantic streak in him, and his sympathy for human weakness, to lead him into loose and unorthodox action.
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When I was about ten I remember going with my dad to a road-house bar and restaurant on the Susquehanna River near the Rodham cottage at Lake Winola.
Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton 2003
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