beerhouse

[ beer-hous ]

noun,plural beer·hous·es [beer-hou-ziz]. /ˈbɪərˌhaʊ zɪz/. British.
  1. an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.

Origin of beerhouse

1
First recorded in 1485–95; beer + house

Words Nearby beerhouse

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How to use beerhouse in a sentence

  • He invites him to a beerhouse to learn his drinking habits and reports favorably upon them.

  • Durand immediately forgot himself in a beerhouse, and it was a difficult matter to get him away from it to hold the rehearsal.

  • At the moment we were immediately between an unpleasantly crowded tram and a fourth-rate beerhouse.

    Berry And Co. | Dornford Yates
  • The hooligans were making merry in a dirty, ill-smelling beerhouse.

    The Created Legend | Feodor Sologub
  • Next day he met Titoff's Russian friend in the German beerhouse, according to plan; and so to the hiding-place.