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

If one of them lets out strange facts in his cups, it signifies nothing: no one takes any heed of a labourer’s beerhouse talk.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard

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

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

The high road ascended in a curve past a few houses and a beerhouse or so, and round until all the valley in which four industrial towns lay crowded and confluent was overlooked.

From In the Days of the Comet by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

Or sitting in beerhouses reading the financial pages of a German paper held upside down.

From Simon the Jester by Locke, William John

All kitchens and beerhouses refuse on the same pretence.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

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

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

From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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