liquor lounge

plural liquor lounges

1. A business with seating, where alcoholic beverages may be purchased and consumed.

   A restaurant in the front of the building with a little liquor lounge in the back. The spot where there was always music, drinking, gambling, tricking and every now and then some killing.

   2010, Ronald A. White, Centurion Justice, →ISBN, page 18

   2 more examples

   "If ever I have been disheartened," he said in a sermon, "it was when I learned that within a stone's throw of the Capitol, there is going to be opened up, by the new leaders of government, a liquor lounge where they may go for cocktails and then into separate rooms for conferences."

   1953 January 13, “‘Lounge Club’ Opens Just For Republicans”, in Lewiston Morning Tribune, retrieved 28 Nov 2013, page 9

   The meeting followed a week of demonstrations at the stately downtown Canadian National hotel, following announcement last Monday of regulations governing dress in the hotel beer parlor and liquor lounge.

   1970 June 15, “Still no beer”, in Windsor Star, Canada, retrieved 28 Nov 2013, page 20

   Synonyms: bar, pub, public house, tavern. watering hole