barrelhouse
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barrelhouse
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From barrel + house. Originally used to refer specifically to a bar that served whiskey directly from the barrel.
noun barrelhouses
- A rough-and-tumble drinking establishment. It’s beautiful, but never naïvely so; the pastoral moments were offset by barrelhouse intrusions.
- 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.
