Mermaid Tavern

noun

1. an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.

Example Sentences

They say she used to be seen at the Mermaid Tavern in London with all those play-acting people.

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The hour had come, and the conspirators were in the Mermaid Tavern for their final arrangements, when lo!

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Even Shakespeare himself used to frequent the Mermaid tavern.

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He could imagine himself at the Mermaid Tavern, hob-nobbing with Shakespeare and all the rest of them.

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The delights of the Mermaid Tavern, where these rare wits were wont to assemble, still live in tradition.

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