Mermaid Tavern

American  

noun

1. an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.

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Example Sentences

For a realist to attempt it means disturbing innumerable hallowed myths�principally the vague one that Shakespeare, Marlowe and their fellows said ods bodikins and talked blank verse in the Mermaid Tavern.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was there the wits gathered together to talk, just as in the days of Ben Jonson they gathered at the Mermaid Tavern.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

Sir Thurstan had given us instructions to put up at the Mermaid Tavern, near the harbor, and there we accordingly stabled our beasts and made arrangements for our own accommodation.

From In the Days of Drake by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)

At the Mermaid Tavern all the wits used to gather.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

Wassail Chorus at the Mermaid Tavern   CHRISTMAS knows a merry, merry place,   Where he goes with fondest face,   Brightest eye, brightest hair: Tell the Mermaid where is that one place,           Where?

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir