tavernous

English

Etymology

tavern +‎ -ous

Adjective

tavernous (comparative more tavernous, superlative most tavernous)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tavern.
    • 1872, Joseph Irving, The annals of our time: a diurnal of events, social and political, home and foreign, from February 24, 1871, to the Jubilee, June 20, 1887:
      My Cambridge Union was a low, ill-ventilated, ill-lit apartment at the back of the Red Lion Inn, cavernous, tavernous—something between a commercial room and a district branch meeting-house.
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