A tap-room.
1809. The bar-room of a public-house is what in England is called a tap-room.—E. A. Kendall, ‘Travels,’ iii. 231 note. (N.E.D.) (Italics in the original.)
1810. When I returned into the bar room,… I found a traveller in it.—F. Cuming, ‘Sketches of a Tour,’ p. 40 (Pittsburgh).
1828. He made a sort of speech in Welles’s bar-room.—Richmond Enquirer, Aug. 19, p. 2/4.
1845. You have [abused] me on so many occasions, in public bar-rooms, in the streets, &c.—Letter of Commodore E. W. Moore to Gen. Sam Houston: Cong. Globe, 1854, p. 1086, App.
1847. He was compelled to traffic with the lowest class of bar-room vagabonds.—Letter from W. G. Hale, Austin, Texas: id., 2nd Session of 35th Congress, p. 775.
1855. This House is not the place for the investigation of idle rumors of the bar-room.—Mr. Colfax of Indiana, House of Repr., Dec. 27: Cong. Globe, p. 92.
