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dmoney on Jan 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998

The dictionary doesn't seem to have that sense of the word "ordinary". By context in web results it seems to mean "tavern".

nandemo on Jan 14, 2012 | [–]

I'd never heard of that meaning either, but it's there.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ordinary

14. obsolete ( Brit ) a. a meal provided regularly at a fixed price b. the inn providing such meals

phodo on Jan 14, 2012 | | [–]

and here: http://www.wordnik.com/words/impecunious/

andrewl on Jan 14, 2012 | [–]

True. I did say you had to stretch things a bit. I was suggesting YC News as Paul's tavern. A public gathering place.

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