rathskeller

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It's as solemn as a rathskeller at seven A. M. It's like being lost behind the scenes at one of these mushroom musical shows.

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  1. noun A restaurant or tavern, usually below street level, that serves beer.

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  • It's as solemn as a rathskeller at seven A. M. It's like being lost behind the scenes at one of these mushroom musical shows. —  Sixes and Sevens
  • He upset a chair, sat in another one, curled a foot around a table leg and cringed at the approach of a waiter You may fetch me a glass of lager beer," he said, in response to the discreet questioning of the servitor The eyes of the rathskeller were upon him. —  The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
  • The only artifact is a huge wooden barrel in the hotel rathskeller. —  dispatch.com: RSS
  • His glance swept the range of vision and settled upon a rathskeller sign. —  Average Jones
  • Let hard liquor crouch and tremble in its rathskeller below the sidewalk! —  Chimney-Pot Papers
 

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  1. German Ratskeller, Rathskeller, restaurant in the city hall basement : German Rat, council, counsel (from Middle High German rāt, from Old High German; see ar- in Indo-European roots) + German Keller, cellar (from Middle High German, from Old High German kellāri, from Latin cellārium; see cellar).
 

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/ˈrɑtskɛlər/
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