Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A café or small restaurant in Greece.
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- noun a small
Greek restaurant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The taverna was a low, squat structure of whitewashed plaster with a swinging wooden door through which lemon light poured beckoningly and with a creaking sign over its frontage, depicting a giant crab so elaborately carapaced it seemed pre - historic.
beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980
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The first was a kind of taverna; the other was more classic.
Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004
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And don't let the "taverna" appellation mislead; although the bar serves lunch and upscale bar noshes ($9-14), it's not really a dinner destination (kitchen open M-F until 8).
unknown title 2009
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Immediately, offers poured in -- from a taverna in the wealthy neighborhood of Kolonaki, from a big baked goods chain, from green grocers in the wholesale market of Rendi, from caterers with leftovers from weddings and baptisms -- and were directed to orphanages, old age homes, halfway houses for the handicapped, soup kitchens run by churches and municipalities all over the Athens area.
Diana Farr Louis: Food Aid Takes Off in Athens Diana Farr Louis 2012
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Immediately, offers poured in -- from a taverna in the wealthy neighborhood of Kolonaki, from a big baked goods chain, from green grocers in the wholesale market of Rendi, from caterers with leftovers from weddings and baptisms -- and were directed to orphanages, old age homes, halfway houses for the handicapped, soup kitchens run by churches and municipalities all over the Athens area.
Diana Farr Louis: Food Aid Takes Off in Athens Diana Farr Louis 2012
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At remote Kechria, in what the Skiathian writer Papadiamantis called a "beautiful, melancholic valley", a Greek flag flies above the craggy beach as people wade into the sea, or stop in the shade of the beach taverna for a cold Mythos beer.
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At remote Kechria, in what the Skiathian writer Papadiamantis called a "beautiful, melancholic valley", a Greek flag flies above the craggy beach as people wade into the sea, or stop in the shade of the beach taverna for a cold Mythos beer.
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"I really must go by myself," she declared as they sat in the smoke-filled taverna, waiting for the second act of flamenco to begin.
Claudia Ricci: So How Do Fiction Writers Fool Readers? Claudia Ricci 2011
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Immediately, offers poured in -- from a taverna in the wealthy neighborhood of Kolonaki, from a big baked goods chain, from green grocers in the wholesale market of Rendi, from caterers with leftovers from weddings and baptisms -- and were directed to orphanages, old age homes, halfway houses for the handicapped, soup kitchens run by churches and municipalities all over the Athens area.
Diana Farr Louis: Food Aid Takes Off in Athens Diana Farr Louis 2012
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Immediately, offers poured in -- from a taverna in the wealthy neighborhood of Kolonaki, from a big baked goods chain, from green grocers in the wholesale market of Rendi, from caterers with leftovers from weddings and baptisms -- and were directed to orphanages, old age homes, halfway houses for the handicapped, soup kitchens run by churches and municipalities all over the Athens area.
Diana Farr Louis: Food Aid Takes Off in Athens Diana Farr Louis 2012
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