saloon keeper

noun

First recorded in 1840–50

"I told you there wasn't any such thing there," the saloon-keeper heard him say triumphantly, when the geography arrived.

The Polish saloon-keeper loses his liquor license if he fails to line up his fellow-countrymen for the local machine.

During the Crusade, a saloon-keeper (at Ocean Grove) consented to close his business.

There was a saloon-keeper brought from Greenfield to H—— to be tried under the Adair law.

The saloon-keeper drew one of the policemen aside, and spoke earnestly and excitedly to him.

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