tavernous

English

Etymology

From 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.