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taverna

[ tuh-vur-nuh, -vair-; Greek tah-ver-nah ]

noun

  1. a small, unpretentious caf é or restaurant in Greece.


taverna

/ ³Ùəˈ±¹ÉœË²ÔÉ™ /

noun

  1. (in Greece) a guesthouse that has its own bar
  2. a Greek restaurant
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of taverna1

1945–50; < Modern Greek ³Ù²¹²úé°ù²Ô²¹ (pronunciation taverna ), Medieval Greek, Late Greek < L. See tavern
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of taverna1

C20: Modern Greek, from Latin taberna
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“We don’t want the Cycladic food to disappear because the younger generations sell the family taverna and it becomes a sushi bar,†she said.

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He plays the song and listens to it from a different room, imagining it is "playing faintly in the distance from a Greek taverna".

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At the time Ms Hanlon died she had been living in Crete for several years, working in bars and tavernas.

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Desserts are, of course, the ones you see in tavernas and cafes all over Spain: flan, rice pudding, torrijas with berries.

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Normally busy restaurants, coffee shops, bars, and traditional tavernas in Athens remained closed with chairs flipped onto outdoor tables, including in the Greek capital’s historic Plaka district.

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