Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Resort to a tavern, or to taverns generally; also, a festival or convivial meeting at a tavern.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A feasting at taverns.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
feasting attaverns .
Etymologies
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tavern + -ing
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Examples
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He developed a quite considerable acquaintance with the plays of William Shakespeare, and in his dreams he wore cinque cento or Elizabethan clothes, and walked about a stormy, ruffling, taverning, teeming world.
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Naturally, the taverning industry was nothing new in the sixteenth
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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He developed a quite considerable acquaintance with the plays of William Shakespeare, and in his dreams he wore cinque cento or Elizabethan clothes, and walked about a stormy, ruffling, taverning, teeming world.
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