taverner

¹ American  

[tav-er-ner] / ˈtæv ər nər /

noun

1. the owner of a tavern.

2. Obsolete. a frequenter of taverns.

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Taverner ² American  

[tav-er-ner] / ˈtæv ər nər /

noun

1. John, 1490?–1545, English organist and composer.

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taverner ¹ British  

/ ˈtævənə /

noun

1. archaic a keeper of a tavern

2. obsolete a constant frequenter of taverns

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Taverner ² British  

/ ˈtævənə /

noun

1. John. ?1495–1545, English composer, esp of church music; best known for the mass Western Wynde , based on a secular song

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Etymology

Origin of taverner

1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French tavernier. See tavern, -er ²

Example Sentences

"Perhaps so," replied Everard, "though I never heard thee use any, save to induce an usurer to lend thee money, or a taverner to abate a reckoning."

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir

The taverner took me by the sleeve, “Sir,” saith he, “will you our wine assay?”

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

Another colleague of John Chaucer’s, John de Stodey, Mayor and Sheriff of London, had been formerly a taverner at Lynn.

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.

The taverner tooke me by the sleve, "Sir," sayth he, "wyll you our wyne assay"?

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

I wonder whether those golden locks carried off by the taverner had belonged to one of those queens of beauty sung by the troubadours!

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)