📚 noun • entry_id 41661
roadhouse
/ˈɹəʊdˌhaʊs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
restaurante de carretera
An inn or similar establishment situated beside a road beyond the jurisdiction of a town or city. In the centuries before motor vehicles, such inns were places for travellers to stop at night during multi-day journeys, besides being public houses for their local countryfolk.
Near-synonym: coaching inn (often synonymous, historically)
The pub was a classic 1930s 'roadhouse'. To the railway's official mindset, it might as well have been an opium den in Victorian London.
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