Obs. Also 5 tabyrn. [ad. L. taberna hut, booth, shop, tavern.] An obsolete doublet of the word TAVERN, variously used in the senses ‘shop, tavern, cellar, cupboard.’
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 729/40. Hec taberna, a tabyrn.
c. 1590. Marlowe, Faust., viii. 21. I can make thee drunk with ippocras at any tabern in Europe for nothing.
1605. Willet, Hexapla Gen., 281. Food … commonly vendible in their tabernes.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 472. In the … angle of the kitchin … may be made a Tabern.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, 47. A Tabern, a Cellar.
