Cave of Harmony n.
the Cider Cellars or Evans’s supper rooms and singing saloon in London.
Newcomes I 242: Bellew has seceded, and seduced the four best singing boys, who now perform glees at the Cave of Harmony. | ||
Twice Round the Clock 338: We will go sup at Evans’s [...] We descend a flight of some steps, pass through a vestibule, and enter the ‘Cave of Harmony.’. | ||
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(ref. to mid-19C) Cockney Past and Present 84: Colonel Newcome’s disgust at the song which he heard at one of these Caves of Harmony [i.e. the Coal Hole or Cider Cellars] must have been well justified. |