tavernry
nounEtymology From tavern + -ry.
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Archaic Carousing and drinking in taverns.
- For some were warded in the Pittie-vault, some set caution to remove from the town, after they had compted and reckoned for their tavernry with their mistresses; […]1792, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, page 340:
- Mr. Banting is welcome to the assumption made by Mr. Andrew, that everybody who did not take the trouble to write in reply to Sir Charles Trevelyan's circular is to be taken as being an unqualified upholder of London Tavernry.1873, The Athenaeum, page 589: