barrelhouse
noun 2
Collocations
2VERB + BARRELHOUSE
offset
BARRELHOUSE + NOUN
blues, intrusions
Definitions
noun
1
A rough-and-tumble drinking establishment.
It’s beautiful, but never naïvely so; the pastoral moments were offset by barrelhouse intrusions.
2
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.
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noun — a cheap drinking and dancing establishment
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It’s beautiful, but never naïvely so; the pastoral moments were offset by barrelhouse intrusions.
Wiktionary02
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.
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