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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who owns or operates a drinking saloon.

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  • noun US someone who owns or operates a saloon (drinking establishment)

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Examples

  • Clear-eyed, from her childhood days with the saloonkeeper Cady and Cady's good-natured but unmoral spouse, she had observed, and, later, generalized much upon sex.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • John Seifert, the watchman in the factory, August Beck, a saloonkeeper, directly across the street from the building, and Gustaf Haas, who lives in the house formerly occupied by Adolph Luetgert, are three of the many persons who have seen the apparition.

    Robert Loerzel: In Search of Mrs. Luetgert's Ghost Robert Loerzel 2011

  • No, the saloonkeeper didn't know anything about Pat Glendon, had never heard of him, and if he was in that part of the country he must be out beyond somewhere.

    Chapter II 2010

  • Nor was it long, catching their spirit, ere she was singing to them and teaching them quaint songs of early days which she had herself learned as a little girl from Cady -- Cady, the saloonkeeper, pioneer, and ax-cavalryman, who had been a bull-whacker on the Salt Intake Trail in the days before the railroad.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • At Walnut Grove, bustling with life, the few Americane consisted of the storekeeper, the saloonkeeper, the butcher, the keeper of the drawbridge, and the ferryman.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • John Seifert, the watchman in the factory, August Beck, a saloonkeeper, directly across the street from the building, and Gustaf Haas, who lives in the house formerly occupied by Adolph Luetgert, are three of the many persons who have seen the apparition.

    Robert Loerzel: In Search of Mrs. Luetgert's Ghost Robert Loerzel 2011

  • John Seifert, the watchman in the factory, August Beck, a saloonkeeper, directly across the street from the building, and Gustaf Haas, who lives in the house formerly occupied by Adolph Luetgert, are three of the many persons who have seen the apparition.

    Robert Loerzel: In Search of Mrs. Luetgert's Ghost Robert Loerzel 2011

  • John Seifert, the watchman in the factory, August Beck, a saloonkeeper, directly across the street from the building, and Gustaf Haas, who lives in the house formerly occupied by Adolph Luetgert, are three of the many persons who have seen the apparition.

    Robert Loerzel: In Search of Mrs. Luetgert's Ghost Robert Loerzel 2011

  • John Seifert, the watchman in the factory, August Beck, a saloonkeeper, directly across the street from the building, and Gustaf Haas, who lives in the house formerly occupied by Adolph Luetgert, are three of the many persons who have seen the apparition.

    Robert Loerzel: In Search of Mrs. Luetgert's Ghost Robert Loerzel 2011

  • Cady -- he was the saloonkeeper -- had been a soldier in my father's company, and he always swore by Captain Kit, which was their nickname for him.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

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