| 单词 | cocoa tavern |
| 释义 | > as lemmascocoa tavern C2. attributive. British. Designating a tavern or small cafe which specializes in serving cocoa (sense A. 3a), as cocoa inn, cocoa room, cocoa tavern, etc. See also cocoa house n. (a) at Compounds 3. Now historical.Many such establishments were opened by temperance societies in the late 19th cent. as an alternative to public houses serving alcoholic drinks. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > chocolate-house chocolate house1691 cocoa house1706 cocoa tavern1875 cocoa inn1902 1875 Bristol Mercury 17 Apr. 8/1 A large public meeting..was held on Wednesday evening, and the Grove Cocoa-rooms. 1877 Leeds Mercury 7 Nov. 5/5 (heading) Proposed Cocoa Taverns at Bradford. 1902 J. V. Blake Songs 57 I was sitting at my simple repast at my little cocoa-inn. 1977 P. Fitzgerald Knox Brothers iv. 104 Trade union meetings in West Ham were usually held at cocoa-rooms. 2004 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 14 Sept. 40 In the early 1880s he returned to Bristol and opened a cocoa tavern in High Street. < as lemmas |
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