0 a drinking room in a pub with plainer furniture and sometimes lower prices than in the other drinking rooms --
The publican or manager of a licensed house can charge what he likes anywhere but in the public bar.
Only in the public bar is any control possible.
Traditionally, we have been used to terms such as cocktail bar, public bar or lounge bar, although those are rapidly going out of fashion.
Few people—apart, perhaps, from some in the odd public bar—would be against our providing assistance to developing nations.
Clubs with such rooms permit children to use them, but not to use the public bar.
Perhaps it is the difference between the saloon bar and the public bar.
We all know what is meant by a little cocktail bar; some get bigger but do not quite reach the public bar standard.
In most public houses in country areas and small public houses in tourist areas there are two rooms, the saloon bar and the public bar.
