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

Inflected Forms

noun

• beerhouses
  plural

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

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

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 Gasthaus zum Faulen Pelz is a beerhouse in Heidelberg.

From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

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