cantina
Sign in to savethumb|Musketeers sitting outside a cantina, painted by [[Joaquín Agrasot, 1885–1890|300x300px]] A cantina is a type of bar common in Latin America and Spain. The word is similar in etymology to "canteen", and is derived from the Italian word for a cellar, winery, or vault. In Italy, the word cantina refers to a room below the ground level where wine and other products such as salami are stored.
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thumb|Musketeers sitting outside a cantina, painted by [[Joaquín Agrasot, 1885–1890|300x300px]] A cantina is a type of bar common in Latin America and Spain. The word is similar in etymology to "canteen", and is derived from the Italian word for a cellar, winery, or vault. In Italy, the word cantina refers to a room below the ground level where wine and other products such as salami are stored.
As cantine it was used to refer to the shop of a sutler, an army camp follower.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cantina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.