liquor lounge

liquor lounge (plural liquor lounges)

1. A business with seating, where alcoholic beverages may be purchased and consumed.
   • 1953 January 13, “‘Lounge Club’ Opens Just For Republicans”, in Lewiston Morning Tribune, retrieved 28 November 2013, page 9:

     "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."

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

     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.

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

     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.

• (business where alcoholic beverages may be purchased and consumed): bar, pub, public house, tavern. watering hole

• cocktail lounge