speakeasy

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Recent Examples of speakeasy Culinary spaces will have a bohemian style and will include a gastronomic restaurant, cafe and speakeasy bar and nightclub, as well as a rooftop pool and bar with spectacular views of the city. Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 The Boatyard menu will feature seafood, steaks, an extensive wine and cocktail program and a speakeasy bar. Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025 Another favorite spot is Catacomb 435 speakeasy, a 1920s inspired haunt with craft cocktails. Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2025 The cousin from Idaho will regale Boise friends back home with travel tales of entering a Miami speakeasy. Lilian Raji, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for speakeasy 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speakeasy
Noun
  • The album earned Faithfull a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and has built a devoted following over the years, not to mention a later-in-life career as a cabaret performer in such hot spots as New York’s Rainbow Room and Carnegie Hall.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Oh Mary!, the brainchild of Escola, is the deliciously untrue story of the famous First Lady, reimagined as a frustrated, alcoholic cabaret performer in the final days before her husband’s assassination.
    Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Through her high-profile performances in film and on Broadway, James became a prolific and popular nightclub performer.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
  • This shift in perception may also be contributing to the decline of traditional nightclub culture.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But how many members who have lost their homes nearby will have to move elsewhere? Professor Garroway and other congregants are trying to learn more about how the mural came to be painted, in a building that had been a roadhouse and a warehouse during the 1920's.
    Scott Simon, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Several other historic roadhouses across Alaska have been preserved and are open to visitors.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Browse a mix of boutiques, wine shops, and old bookstores here, or take a seat at a tea house or traditional bistro.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025
  • In the 1960s, France counted about 200,000 bistros and cafes across the country.
    Vivian Song, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This Livermore movie theater and alehouse will show the NFC championship in high-def on a 30-foot screen.
    Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The London Evening Post didn’t give her name, simply identifying her as the keeper of the Queen’s Head alehouse.
    Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
Noun
  • The last-chance saloon is where Liverpool’s Darwin Nunez likes to drink.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The mandatory closing of saloons and bars led to the rise of secret nightclubs and liquor stores where liquor flowed free.
    Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Danny Wang, who formerly owned Caution Brewing in Denver, has been trying to find a business partner who could help take on the brand and continue operating the restaurant (possibly as part of a brewpub) in a new location.
    Jonathan Shikes, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The brewpub operates in a historic bank that was first built in 1837 and is one of the oldest surviving building in Louisville.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • And then there’s the Gedling Inn, a pub in a town near Nottingham who promised a free beer for their patrons for every goal Forest scored yesterday afternoon.
    Nick Miller, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Not far from Pete’s is Parasol’s, an Irish pub in the Irish Channel.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2025

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“Speakeasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speakeasy. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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