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Roadhouse

noun

An inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling.

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"Roadhouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... fat, sly-looking man whose eyes twinkled with a look of mysterious inner amusement, caused, probably, by astonishment at his own respectability. He had behind him a career of unprecedented villainy, and that he should end here at Rusty as the solid and well-considered keeper of the roadhouse was, no doubt, a perpetual tickle to his consciousness. Down either side of the table were silent and impressive figures busy with their food. Courteous and quiet they were and beautifully uninquiring, except in the matter of her supplies. The yellow lamplight shone on brown bearded ...

— Hidden Creek • Katharine Newlin Burt

... and development shows many points of importance. The mother died when Nellie was a very little girl. She was terribly abused by a husband who was excessively alcoholic and in general a tremendous brute. They lived in a roadhouse where drunken fights were not uncommon. Nellie has been brought up since her mother's death by other relatives. Outside of alcoholism on the father's side there is said to be no family peculiarities. The mother came from a very reputable family. Nellie suffered ...

— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy

Words linked to "Roadhouse" : hostelry, inn, auberge, lodge, hostel