What does barrelhouse mean?
Barrelhouse means A rough-and-tumble drinking establishment..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A rough-and-tumble drinking establishment..
It’s beautiful, but never naïvely so; the pastoral moments were offset by barrelhouse intrusions.
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.
Use barrelhouse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Barrelhouse means A rough-and-tumble drinking establishment..
Common synonyms include juke, juke joint, honky-tonk.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It’s beautiful, but never naïvely so; the pastoral moments were offset by barrelhouse intrusions.
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