beerhouse

American  

[beer-hous] / ˈbɪərˌhaʊs /

noun

British.

beerhouses plural

1. an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• beerhouses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of beerhouse

First recorded in 1485–95; beer + house

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

beerhouse beerhouses

Cervejaria means beerhouse, and while you can still grab a cold Sagres at Ramiro, these days it’s all about the seafood.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2016

All their relations have been, and still are, labourers, varied by one here who has become a tinker, or one there who keeps a small roadside beerhouse.

From The Toilers of the Field by Jefferies, Richard

Near the church, and occupying good relative positions on each side of a beerhouse, called “The Rising Sun,” are All Saints' schools.

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

If one stands over him—well and good; if not, then all that Master Rudolf cares for is how soon he may get back to his beerhouse.

From Captain Jim by Bruce, Mary Grant

The first applicant, after I entered the room, was a man apparently under forty years of age, a beerhouse keeper, who had been comparatively well off until lately.

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin

The Flask Tavern in Flask Walk is on the site of one of the oldest beerhouses in Hampstead; the present structure is a hideous brick building of modern date.

From Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir

Here one is in an almost undisguised working-men’s quarter, for even the shops and beerhouses hardly take the trouble to exhibit a trifling degree of cleanliness. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

Professors and students disliked to be taken so far from their lodgings and their beerhouses, and the old university had been quite within the city.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Three or four wretched public-houses or beerhouses had existed in the village.

From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Well, Rat-catchers are generally called upon to supply Rats for the Rat coursings usually held at beerhouses, etc., on Saturday afternoons, which one often sees advertised. 

From Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience by Matthews, Ike