barrel-housen.
Originally U.S.
1. A low-class drinking saloon, often incorporating a lodging-house or brothel.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
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lush-ken1790
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Tom and Jerry shop1824
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1883 G. W. Peck Peck's Bad Boy 120 After I had put a few things in his brandy he concluded it was cheaper to buy it, and he is now patronizing a barrel-house.
1888 Missouri Republican 11 Feb. (Farmer) The West-side police are still arresting barrel-house loafers.
1904 Chicago Tribune in N.Y. Evening Post 2 June 3 The tramp..could go his way in the morning to the barrel house or the beer saloon.
1934 Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs (1960) p. xxxi Jazz reigns happily and completely in the barrel-house regions.
1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 79 Any musician who wasn't too proud to earn a dollar in a barrelhouse.
2. attributive, passing into adj. Designating an unrestrained type of jazz such as is played in barrel-houses, characterized by a forceful rhythm. Also absol.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of
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hot1918
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hotcha1930
jungle1935
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traditional jazz1935
powerhouse1937
gutty1939
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jivey1944
Kansas City1946
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far-out1954
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mainstream1957
Afro-Latin1958
1926 H. O. Osgood So this is Jazz 99 Trumpets and trombones..in that semi-muffled voice aptly described by the term ‘barrel-house tone’.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 182/1 The barrelhouse style is very African.
1938 Manch. Guardian Weekly 2 Sept. 188/3 It may start ‘barrelhouse’ (free improvisation), blending into ‘screwball’ (fast free improvisation).
1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xv. 181 Barrel-house retains a close allegiance with ragtime.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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