piano bar

plural piano bars

1. A type of lounge or bar featuring live piano music as a form of entertainment.

   In the later days of the regulations one of the transcontinental airlines actually had a piano bar on its flights.

   1989, G. Tullock, The Economics of Special Privilege and Rent Seeking, page 13

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   "Where'd you learn to play the piano?" the drunk asks. "I got two degrees," the piano player says. "One in musical education." I go to a coin telephone and call a friend in New York. "Where are you?" he says. "In a piano bar in Encino," I say.

   1968, Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays, page 224

   DOUG. Yeah, well this ain't a piano bar. BETTY. (indicating piano) Then what is that over there? DOUG. This is a bar with a piano. That's not the same thing as a piano bar, believe me.

   1987, Barbara Beery et al., The Bar Off Melrose: A New Comedy, page 15