tavernkeeper
nounEtymology From tavern + keeper.
1
One who keeps a tavern.
- Mr. Hautekiet, 41, a large, friendly man with a seemingly endless supply of facts about the town, said that all attempts to locate former residents of Goverthing had been fruitless, though one — the tavernkeeper — had been found in a retirement home in Brooklyn, where he has refused for decades to speak of the town, its uneasy relationship with the Army or its demise.2009 September 19, Randy Kennedy, “Uncovering a Small Town (and Some Tall Tales)”, in New York Times: