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barrelhouse

noun

Etymology

From barrel + house. Originally used to refer specifically to a bar that served whiskey directly from the barrel.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-✻
  3. inherited from *hūsą✻ — “house”
  4. inherited from *hūs✻
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house”
  6. inherited from hous
  7. compounded as barrelhouse — “barrel + house”

Definitions

  1. A rough-and-tumble drinking establishment.

    • It’s beautiful, but never naïvely so; the pastoral moments were offset by barrelhouse intrusions.

  2. A loud, percussive type of blues piano suitable for noisy bars or taverns.

    • A barrelhouse blues was being shouted over the stamping of feet on a wooden floor. Miss Grace, the good-time woman, had her usual Saturday-night customers.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA