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Ratskeller

town-hall cellar restaurant

noun RAHT-skel-ler Rare
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Usage Note

Ratskeller is a traditional restaurant in the vaulted cellar (Keller) beneath a town hall (Rathaus), a quintessential German institution found in many historic cities. Plural Ratskeller.

Examples

"Zum Abschluss der Stadtführung kehrten wir im alten Ratskeller ein."

Natural Translation

To end the city tour we stopped off at the old town-hall cellar restaurant.

Literal Translation

For the conclusion of the city-tour stopped we in the old Ratskeller.

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