beerhouse

American  

[beer-hous] / ˈbɪərˌhaʊs /

noun

British.

plural

beerhouses

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

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Etymology

Origin of beerhouse

First recorded in 1485–95; beer + house

Example Sentences

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

I hired a horse at a livery-stable at Walsall, and had him kept in readiness in the back yard of a beerhouse.

From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by Murray, David Christie

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

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 Benton, Thomas H.

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)