taverna
[tuh-vur-nuh, -vair-; Greek tah-ver-nah]
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noun
a small, unpretentious café or restaurant in Greece.
Origin of taverna
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The frightful desert of the Taverna was not forgotten, nor the old Genoese castle, the office of the steamship agency.
The NabobAlphonse Daudet
taverna
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Word Origin for taverna
C20: Modern Greek, from Latin taberna
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