beerhouse

American  

[beer-haus] / 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

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Etymology

Origin of beerhouse

First recorded in 1485–95; beer + house

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Example Sentences

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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

In the centre a circular fountain; on four sides the mediæval gables of the old beerhouse; here and there a barrel on end, to serve as table.

From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton

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

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 Edwin Waugh

It stands at the corner of the street which is opposite the Steam Packet beerhouse.

From London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

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 Florence Kelley

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 Ike Matthews

They have even established municipal beerhouses and Rathhauskeller.

From German Problems and Personalities by Charles Saroléa

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

From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

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

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